It was way too cold to break any sort of ground today. Especially the kind still covered by a few inches of snow, and especially on the waterfront property framing the Kill Van Kull, the tidal strait that separates Staten Island, New York and Bayonne, New Jersey — the future site of 1888 Studios.
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1888 Studios, named for the year Thomas Edison more or less invented the video camera (in New Jersey!), has been conceived as a 58-acre facility with 1.1 million square feet of production space across 23 soundstages, all of which will have 40-foot ceilings. Paramount, its anchor tenant, will occupy 285,000 of those square feet for a minimum period of 10 years. This morning, the gathered celebrated the groundbreaking with coffee, breakfast pastries and an unplowed parking lot…