LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Developers broke ground Tuesday on a 245,000-square-foot television and film studio in downtown Los Angeles, aiming to cement the city’s status as the entertainment production capital of the world.
The $230 million project, called the East End Studios Mission Campus, will be located in the Arts District and will feature five stages ranging in size from 14,000 sq ft to 35,000 sq ft. Other amenities will include offices, production, support, grocery stores and outdoor spaces, as well as a base camp, parking and direct load-out facilities for the stages.
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“The Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles has long been on our radar as a premier, vibrant development market,” East End Studios managing partner Shep Wainwright said in a statement. “With its rich culture and unique charm, the area is an exceptionally well-suited location for a first-class, fully integrated film and television studio campus.”
East End Studios is an independent studio management and development company headquartered in Los Angeles with additional studio space in Queens, New York.
The campus is expected to create 1,500 construction jobs in the city, with a further 750 full-time jobs once complete, and East End Studios aims to open the facility by the end of 2025.
Rendering courtesy of East End Studios via Sapkar Public Relations
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass welcomed the project, adding that the city’s film industry needed support.
“From the hundreds of jobs created on campus to the many writers, set and costume designers, electricians and florists, to the many local businesses surrounding us, we are creating jobs and boosting our signature economy,” Bass said in a statement.
The Feature Center and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass helped break ground on the East End Studios Mission Campus on Monday. (Courtesy of East End Studios, via Sapkar Public Relations)
The Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation also supported the facility and other East End projects.
“The new East End Studios Mission campus will spur economic growth in the film and television industry, alleviate the studio space shortage and ultimately create hundreds of new, high-paying jobs in Los Angeles,” Steven Chang, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation, said in a statement.
“We are extremely grateful to our partners at East End Studios for helping to bring this state-of-the-art facility to life and supporting the development of a vital industry in Los Angeles,” Chang added.
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