Have the Sunnydale high street sets expanded a lot over time?

We started very small. It used to just be the parking lot on the back side of our stage.

The only thing here before I started was a palm tree. Joss had always talked about having a little backyard or a Sunnydale main street [so] I keyed off the Edward Hopper painting of the diner and did an illustration of [the Expresso Pump] that looked very much like the Edward Hopper painting.

We created this as a little set that had some views out and created little pieces of backings so that we could shoot inside here, looking out at what would one day become our back lot.

Then from there through season three, we just kept adding little facades and plugging up little spaces until we [ended up with] this whole little street back here. But it took a full season for that to take place.