Belfrey Towers

"She's coming up. Come on, people! Look alive! You, clean that up! You, take off that ridiculous tie! Everybody look busy and remember: no eye contact!"

- Ivy Belfrey to the employees of Belfrey Developments

The Belfrey Towers, headquarters of Belfrey Developments, are a Seattle location featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. They first appear in the first episode of the seventh season.

Trivia

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On-Screen Notes

 * According to its front sign, Belfrey Developments is an architecture, design and project development company. Its website is www.belfreydevelopments.com.
 * The Belfrey Towers are located across from Hyperion Plaza.
 * The secret room, where Eloise Gardener is kept as prisoner, is located at the top floor of the Towers.


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Popular Culture

 * The scene where Victoria enters the Belfrey Towers in "Hyperion Heights" is a homage to the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, in which Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly enters the Runway building in a similar way.
 * Glenn Close's Cruella DeVil has also a similar scene and entrance in the live-action film 101 Dalmatians.


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Set Dressing

 * Two paintings by the American artist Augustine Kofie are decorating the walls inside the lobby. One can be seen next to Ivy's reception desk (note that the show's version is cropped and the original version is bigger), while the other one appears next to the elevator and is a painting from the artist's 2011 exhibition Circulatory System.
 * The machinery seen in the top level of Belfrey Towers (the room where Eloise Gardener is kept) is the same prop used in the control room of Storybrooke Power Inc.


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Filming Locations

 * The Anvil Centre Office Tower at 11 Eighth Street in New Westminster doubles as the Belfrey Tower for exterior scenes.
 * The scene where the construction workers deliver Anastasia's coffin to Victoria Belfrey in "The Garden of Forking Paths" was filmed in the rear loading bay of the Anvil Centre.