Downey Landing, made up of 160 acres and formerly known as the Downey NASA site, is located in Downey, California - a leading community in the heart of Southern California between the business hubs of Downtown Los Angeles and Orange County. Over 2,500 retail, service and manufacturing businesses employ nearly 50,000 people that call Downey home. It is an active community of 107,300 people covering 12 square miles. Downey is recognized for its central location, leading retail and manufacturing firms, medical facilities, quality schools and safe residential neighborhoods.

The City of Downey has been actively negotiating with NASA to have the Downey Landing site conveyed from the Federal Government in order to develop unique reuse opportunities that will provide quality jobs and long-term financial stability for Downey and its surrounding communities. 67 acres were conveyed by the end of 1998, while the remainder is anticipated to be transferred to the city by early 2003.

The plan for Downey Landing is, first and foremost, for it to be a comprehensive project. All of the development within the 160 acres is governed by common development standards and guidelines. The entire area has been renamed Downey Landing, reflecting its historic uses and its importance to the future of the City.

The re-use of Downey Landing represents an immense and long-term development opportunity. The site’s Specific Plan provides for the development of a mix of uses including commercial, media, medical, business, technical, and open space that forms a distinct district within the City of Downey. Virtually flat, Downey Landing provides few physical deterrents to development, making the site an ideal asset for community and economic growth.

Prospective tenants for the retail center include:

• Ross - an off-price retailer, it offers first-quality, in-season, name brand and designer apparel, accessories and footwear for the entire family at everyday savings of 20% to 60% from department and specialty store regular prices, including home accessories.
• Best Buy - covers an extensive selection of affordable, easy-to-use technology and entertainment products that are fun, informative with a no-pressure-shopping environment.
• Bally Total Fitness - offers exercise opportunities with brand-name equipment, the latest group classes, customized personal training, nutritional supplements, etc.

And numerous others, including: Michael’s, Marshall’s, and Linens ‘n’ Things.

The southern portion of Downey Landing that will be made up of 30 acres planned as a major Kaiser Permanente hospital and medical office complex of approximately 1 million square feet. Kaiser Permanente is America's largest not-for-profit health maintenance organization, serving 8.1 million members in 9 states and the District of Columbia. An integrated health delivery system, Kaiser Permanente organizes and provides or coordinates members' care, including preventive care. Social benefit activities include assistance to the uninsured and special populations; training new health professionals; introducing new delivery and financing methods into the health care arena at large; and through clinical research efforts, developing and sharing better ways to care for patients.

KDMC is to be oriented to Bellflower Boulevard and to a new proposed east-west internal road off Imperial Highway. The hospital and medical office buildings will be built over time but designed as one complex. Elements, materials, and colors of the final design will be coordinated throughout the complex in order to give KDMC a uniform look.

The western portion of the property, also known as Downey Studios, is planned as a television and movie production facility that will incorporate existing structures. The adaptive reuse of this portion of Downey Landing would provide the film industry with a cost effective alternative to runaway production, attract the film industry and associated economic benefits to the City of Downey, and create the opportunity to preserve buildings that are important to the local community.

The complex will occupy approximately 78-acres and is made up of eight existing large buildings to be used as stages and seven small buildings to be used as production facilities. Downey Studios will also be an important asset to attract new, well paying industrial jobs. The studio complex will be enclosed behind a perimeter wall that provides both privacy and security. Film production activities will take place both within structures and on paved surfaces within the area.

Films that have recently been filmed in Downey include: Evolution, Clockstoppers, Spiderman, and Austin Powers:Goldmember, Catch Me If You Can, Terminator III, Daredevil, and several commercials.

The southwestern portion of the property and immediately adjacent to Downey Studios, is an open space component to the Specific Plan of Downey Landing. Facing Clark Avenue, this 13-acre area will include a Public Park. Parks not only provide a respite from the noise and bustle of traffic and crowds in our city but they also provide a stage for a whole range of social activities, a social goal that Downey already works towards and that will be increased by an additional recreational area.

The Learning Center honors the legacy of America's space science program and promotes the spirit of invention that has expanded exploration beyond the surface of the Earth. Through innovative education programs and a visitor center, accomplishments of the air and space program inspire people of all ages to enhance their knowledge of science and to value technology in their daily lives.

The progression of ownership and operation of the aeronautical facilities was from Vultee to Consolidated, from Consolidated to North American, from North American to NASA and eventually to Rockwell/Boeing/North American. In 1998, as a result of restructuring within Boeing North American, the NASA industrial plant was determined to be "excess to the company’s needs," and was, therefore, also considered to be excess to the government’s needs, making it available for disposal by the federal government. The City of Downey plans to acquire the entire property early 2003.