1888 Studios is coming to life. The sprawling film and television studio on a 70 acres site Bayonne, New Jersey will be the largest ground-up movie studio complex in North America.
Formerly a Texaco oil storage facility, the 1.5 million square foot facility will be named after the year Thomas Edison filed a patent for the motion picture camera.
1888 Studios will consist of 17 buildings that are a mix of studio soundstage buildings complemented by attached office structures. The complex will feature a post-production office plus several mill buildings for stages to be constructed and stored.
Other aspects of the plan include a lighting and grip building, a central utility plant, a utility yard, a trash and recycling area, and a facilities yard to support the studio use along with surface parking. Four sub-surface parking structures are to be built on the land, which will provide a total of 2,127 parking spaces.
Netflix is building its East Coast flagship studio at Fort Monmouth; Lionsgate will occupy a studio complex in Newark’s South Ward; 1888 Studios is coming to Bayonne; and ACX1 Studios has moved into the former Playground Pier mall at Caesars Atlantic City, where sets and stages are being built
1888 Studios joins a number of new film studio projects across the Garden State that include, newly opened Cinelease Studios Caven Point, Netflix’s Fort Monmouth Studio and Lionsgate Studios in Newark.
Renderings of 1888 Studios courtesy of Gensler
