Museum to Open Branch in Burbank : Media City Center: The City Council approves leasing a site in the mall for the satellite facility. Construction will cost $900,000.

The Burbank City Council on Tuesday voted to lease a site in the Media City Center in downtown Burbank to the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History for its first satellite facility.

The 12,500-square-foot museum will be leased for a nominal fee on a site previously reserved for a community center and cultural facility, Burbank officials said.

Under the terms of another agreement, the Alexander Haagen Co., developers of the mall, and the city will pay the $900,000 cost of constructing the facility in the mall, which opened last year.

A citizens committee has also been appointed by the council to raise an additional $300,000 from private sources to pay for furnishings.

Exhibits will include electronically controlled, life-size replicas of dinosaurs that will move and roar and artifacts from the county’s gem and textile collections as well as from other museums, such as the Smithsonian Institution.

Later, acting as the city’s redevelopment agency, the council rejected proposals by three developers who wanted to build a hotel and office project in the city’s Media District.

Officials said the proposals from Shamrock Holdings Co., the Kravertz Co. and the Koll Co. were all too large, did not meet height or setback requirements and could not be carried out without significant financial assistance from the city.

The builders had proposed to construct their projects on the Media Center North site bordered by Alameda Avenue, Olive Avenue and the Ventura Freeway.