Movers serving Burbank
Burbank is a city of its own at the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley, between Glendale, Griffith Park, the Verdugo Mountains and the Los Angeles neighborhoods of North Hollywood and Toluca Lake. It has two distinct parts: the foothill section, which climbs toward the Verdugos, and the flatlands, home to Magnolia Park, the Rancho and the Media District. A hillside home and a Media District office floor share little but the city’s permit counter, and Elite Moving & Storage plans each move for the street it is on.
In Burbank, planning starts at the street: whether the truck needs a permit, how wide the roadway is and how far it is to the door. A walkthrough, in person or by video, then produces a room-by-room inventory and a written estimate, which become the plan for the white glove move. Burbank is one stop in our coverage of the San Fernando Valley.
Hillside homes in the Verdugo foothills
Above downtown Burbank, streets climb into the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains, toward Sunset Canyon, Stough Canyon and Wildwood Canyon. Many homes here sit on sloped lots with views across the Valley, and the same slopes mean steep drives, tight turns and streets too narrow for a truck to stand on. Burbank’s code lets the city post no parking on roadways 20 feet wide or less, so a hillside move often starts with a staging point on a wider street and a smaller shuttle vehicle for the last stretch.
Foothill houses often hold the pieces that need the most care: large paintings, mirrors, stone tabletops and high-end collections. We build crates to size for those that need them, and art that calls for specialist handling can go through fine art moving.
The foothills are also a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone. The Burbank Fire Department requires brush clearance there by the end of June, and the La Tuna Fire of September 2017 brought evacuation orders to the DeBell Golf Course and the streets around Brace Canyon Park. While a hillside home is repaired, sold or rebuilt, what the interim home cannot hold can wait in storage between homes.
The Rancho equestrian district
The Rancho, on Burbank’s southern edge beside Griffith Park, is the city’s horse country. Its single-family lots are zoned R-1-H, a horsekeeping zone Burbank uses nowhere else, and many homes have stables behind them. Riverside Drive, its main street, is lined with sycamores and oaks, the bike lanes on Riverside Drive and Main Street double as horse lanes, and trails lead from the neighborhood into Griffith Park. Part of the Rancho continues across the city line into Glendale.
A Rancho move has its own checklist: barn and tack equipment and outdoor furniture on top of the house, long carries from the back of a deep lot, and a truck parked where it will not block a horse lane or spook a horse. We walk the whole property, not just the house. Where a barn and a guest house come too, we plan the whole lot as an estate move.
Magnolia Park and Toluca Lake
Magnolia Park, on Burbank’s west side, was laid out in the early 1920s by Earl L. White, who built Hollywood Way himself when the city would not pay for a road linking the tract to the Cahuenga Pass. It runs roughly from West Verdugo Avenue to Chandler Boulevard between Hollywood Way and Buena Vista Street, most of its homes date to the 1940s, and Magnolia Boulevard runs through the middle with its antique, vintage and thrift shops.
Moves here are mostly about the street. Some Burbank residential streets are time-limited or permit-only, and a truck that needs the curb for the day goes through a street use permit rather than hoping for a space. We check the block at the walkthrough and apply ahead.
On Burbank’s western edge, Toluca Lake is a neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles that spills over into Burbank. On the Los Angeles side, curb space for a truck goes through the Los Angeles Department of Transportation; on the Burbank side, through Public Works. For Studio City and the Los Angeles side of Toluca Lake, see movers in Studio City.
Media District offices and production moves
Burbank is the San Fernando Valley’s second-largest office market, and much of that space is used by the entertainment industry. The Media District, in the southwest of the city, runs from Magnolia Park to the Los Angeles River between Keystone Street and Toluca Lake, with studio lots along the city’s southern edge and office buildings around them.
A production office usually moves on a date the schedule sets, and the plan follows the building. Office towers route freight elevator and dock bookings through property management, which asks for the mover’s certificate first. A studio lot is a private, gated property, so access for the crew and the truck is arranged with the production or the lot in advance. Every desk and file box gets a department label keyed to the new floor plan, and the move runs after hours or over a weekend. The process is on office and commercial moving; for a household following a new Burbank job, see corporate relocation.
The airport, the 5 and the 134
Hollywood Burbank Airport sits in the city’s northwest corner. Its new 14-gate terminal, with its main entrance at Winona Avenue and Hollywood Way, is set to open in October 2026, and construction has brought lane closures on Hollywood Way, so we check the airport-area routes the week of the move.
Interstate 5 cuts across Burbank from northwest to southeast, and the Ventura Freeway, the 134, links the city to the 101 and the 210. We keep loaded runs on both off the morning and evening rush. Summers run hot: the airport’s all-time high of 114 degrees was reached most recently in September 2024, so summer moves start early and art and wine are not left waiting in a hot truck. Heading east instead? See movers in Glendale, or farther east, movers in Pasadena.
