Film Production Center The Fields Studios Rises in Chicago
variety.comPeter Caranicas Deputy Editor Chicago is about to join the growing list of cities where new soundstage construction will boost the local entertainment economy.
The Fields Studios – the city’s first purpose-built and, to date, largest film production complex – will open in the first quarter of 2024.
Owned and developed by real estate firm Knickpoint Ventures, the new campus occupies the site of the former warehouse and distribution center for the city’s legendary Marshall Field’s department store and its retailers across the U.S.
It includes nine soundstages on two lots totaling 132,000 square feet of stage space and over 350,000 square feet of creative and production offices, plus mill and support space, on over 20 acres in Chicago’s Northwest Side. “This project is another key landmark in our growing film and TV scene, which reached record revenue numbers in 2022,” said Illinois Governor J.B.
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