Downtown Los Angeles’ arts district will soon be home to a state-of-the-art studio campus.
East End Studios filed a development order with the City of Los Angeles on Monday for a new production complex in the area that would include 16 soundstages, Class A office space in four buildings and studio support uses in approximately 15 acres. on the corner of 6th and Alameda streets. The current site is occupied by a pair of product storage buildings and surface parking.
“As studio developers focused only on prime locations, we took the opportunity to build a world-class campus for digital content production in the Arts District,” said Shep Wainwright, managing partner at East End Studios, in a statement. “The existing and proposed amenities in the area, the size of the property and the billions of dollars of investment in adjacent transit presented an unparalleled opportunity to bring desperately needed modern manufacturing space to Los Angeles.”
The East End commissioned international architectural firm GRIMSHAW (which previously worked on the master plan for the Los Angeles Union Station, LAX Airport Metro Link Transit Station, and the Santa Monica Arts Complex) to design the campus, with Studio MLA handling the landscaping. . .
The East End Studios Arts District campus will create 321,520 square feet of Sunstages studio space, 292,310 square feet of creative office space and 106,570 square feet of production support space. The car parks, with a total of 1,327 spaces, will be mostly underground. The project also includes ample parking for bicycles and aims to encourage employees to use the various existing and planned means of transport in the area.
“By taking a vertical approach to campus design, we are freeing up valuable space for larger studios and base camps, while creating better pedestrian and vehicle circulation between the sound studios and the creative workspace,” he said. Andrew Byrne, partner at GRIMSHAW. “Additionally, we are very excited to be working with our neighbors in the Arts District to preview our planned open space on Mill Street.”
The news comes as existing Los Angeles sound studios struggle to keep up with production demands amid the streaming content boom, and new and existing companies have entered the studio-building game to cash in on Hollywood’s overwhelmed businesses.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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