Located in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley, the city of Burbank is just 12 miles northwest of Downtown LA and is home to Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros and the largest IKEA in the United States. According to the 2010 census, Burbank has a population of 103,340.

Only a few miles northeast of Hollywood, Burbank is known as the “Media Capital of the World” since numerous media and entertainment companies have headquartered in the city. These companies include Warner Bros. Pictures, The Walt Disney Company, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, The Burbank Studios, Cartoon Network Studios with the West Coast branch of Cartoon Network, and Insomniac Games.The Hollywood Burbank Airport also served as the location of Lockheed’s Skunk Works where the most classified and technologically advanced airplanes were produced, such as the U-2 spy planes that uncovered Soviet Union missile components in Cuba.

Two distinct areas make up Burbank: the flathead section and, in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains, the downtown/foothill section. The city’s namesake comes from David Burbank who was a dentist and entrepreneur who left New Hampshire to start a sheep ranch in the area back in 1867.