STEINER STUDIOS TO BUILD NEW PRODUCTION HUB IN BROOKLYN

The Hollywood Reporter – Amid a shortage of soundstages, New York is getting a new production hub. Steiner Studios, a well-known Brooklyn-based soundstage operator that’s been home to productions like Joker and The Marevlous Mrs. Masiel, is building a new 500,000-square-foot film and television facility in the Sunset Park area of Brooklyn. Construction will be funded by $320M in private investment, along with approximately $15 million from the City of New York.

NYC’S STEINER STUDIOS TO BUILD NEW PRODUCTION HUB AT FORMER PORT COMPLEX IN BROOKLYN

Deadline – New York City’s Steiner Studios will build out a new 500,000-square-foot film and television production hub in Sunset Park, Brooklyn with eight soundstages, the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment announced Thursday.

With $320 million in private investment from Steiner, the project, at a former port complex called Bush Terminal, will create thousands of jobs, the city said, and “advance diversity and equity in the media and entertainment industry” through targeted programs. The idea is for construction to start in 18 months and take 24 months after that to complete.

NYC MAYOR’S OFFICE LEADS EARLY TALKS ABOUT ROAD BACK FOR FILM AND TV PRODUCERS IN COVID-19 EPICENTER

Deadline – With production at a standstill in most of the world, the path back for New York-based film and TV producers is particularly fraught.

The city is the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, with nearly 300,000 people infected and about 18,000 people dead.

MORE TV SHOWS ARE CALLING NEW YORK HOME AS DEMAND FOR STREAMING CONTENT GROWS

CNN – On a soundstage near the Brooklyn waterfront, dozens of production staff are gathered around four actors as they perform a scene about the hunt for a missing ring. Camera people, sound and lighting techs, and a director hustle around the action. They are here to film a new episode of the CBS drama “God Friended Me,” one of a growing number of television shows that is not only set in New York City, but actually films there.

THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN BROOKLYN

City & State New York

44. Doug Steiner
President
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Perhaps no one is more closely associated with New York’s revival as a film and television hub than Doug Steiner. The developer’s vision to build soundstages and production facilities in the Brooklyn Navy Yard has made it the largest production lot east of Hollywood. He’s now occupying 760,000 square feet, brought in Wegmans plus another 85,000 square feet of retail and is spearheading a $2.5 billion expansion