🎥 Newark breaks ground on a $125M Lionsgate film and TV studio. 🏗️ The complex promises 600+ long-term jobs, as the first of three major studio projects reshaping New Jersey’s entertainment industry. 💰 State leaders say the studios could pump more than $800 million a year into Newark’s economy.
NEWARK — Construction has begun at what will be New Jersey’s first of three film and television production studios.
The 12-acre, $125 million-plus facility will be owned and managed by Great Point Studios, with Lionsgate as an anchoring tenant and namesake of the studios.
Six sound stages and full production campus planned
There will be six sound stages at the site of the former Seth Boyden Housing complex, along Frelinghuysen Avenue near the borders of Elizabeth and Hillside.
The 270,000 square-foot complex will also have production offices, set-building facilities, and on-site production services, including grip/electric, equipment storage, catering, props, parking, security, and more.
Community benefits agreement promises Newark jobs and training
Lionsgate, Great Point Studios, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the Newark Housing Authority, as well as legislators and leaders like Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Gov. Phil Murphy recently marked the start of construction…