Epic Moves West

Interscope also is prepping a return to a renovated space inside Universal Music Group's Colorado Avenue complex in Santa Monica, all of which points to a robust climate for commercial real estate in L.A. "Between aspiring writers and producers who have planted roots here and the arrival of Apple, YouTube, Instagram and others to Silicon Beach, you have the beginning - the creative - and the end - the distribution - of the process," says WMG head of A&R Mike Caren, who recently built a new studio complex west of Hollywood.