{"id":74986,"date":"2025-12-18T23:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/74986\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T23:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:26:14","slug":"future-home-to-paramount-1888-studios-in-bayonne-breaks-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/74986\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Home to Paramount, 1888 Studios in Bayonne Breaks Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1888Construction has officially begun at 1888 Studios, which will revitalize 58 acres of land near the Bayonne Bridge. Image courtesy Choose New Jersey.<\/p>\n

A large film production studio in New Jersey is officially underway as construction has begun to revitalize 58 acres of land near the Bayonne Bridge.<\/p>\n

Public officials and film industry executives took part in a groundbreaking ceremony for 1888 Studios, a motion picture and television production complex that will rise at the foot of Avenue A in Bayonne. The event took place inside a tent on the studio construction site, which had been a Texaco refinery that closed in the 1980\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Jersey Digs was the first outlet to report<\/a> on the studio plan back in 2022. Bayonne passed a rezoning plan in 2020 for the land, which overlooks Staten Island and the Kill Van Kull.<\/p>\n

\"1888The full plan for 1888 Studios. Image courtesy of Gensler.<\/p>\n

Designed by San Francisco-based firm Gensler, 1888 Studios will consist of a mix of studio sound stage buildings complemented by attached office structures. The complex will include a post-production office and several mill buildings for stages to be constructed and stored.<\/p>\n

The new facility will span 23 soundstages and more than one million square feet. The construction phase is expected to produce 2,300 union jobs and when the facility is complete and operational, it is expected to produce 2,000 union jobs.<\/p>\n

\"1888Rendering of the studio complex. Image courtesy of Gensler.<\/p>\n

Arpad Busson, the President of the 1888 Studios, said during the ceremony that the production complex \u201cwill reshape the city for generations to come\u201d and would make Bayonne \u201ca global connector.\u201d\u00a0Film powerhouse Paramount signed a 10-year\u00a0agreement<\/a> back in October to be the facility\u2019s primary tenant.<\/p>\n

Other aspects of the plan for 1888 Studios 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 subterranean parking structures would be built on the site, providing a total of 2,127 parking spaces.<\/p>\n

\"18881888 Studios. Image courtesy of Gensler.<\/p>\n

Paramount\u2019s Global Operations executive Jose Turkienicz attended the groundbreaking and called the studio complex \u201ca major step forward\u201d and a source of \u201ccreative momentum.\u201d A former New Jersey resident, Turkienicz thanked the state\u2019s public officials for supporting tax credit programs for the film industry in the Garden State.<\/p>\n

Outgoing Governor Phil Murphy said that New Jersey has an \u201cinnovation economy,\u201d which includes film and digital industries. He noted that New Jersey gets back $7 for each $1 invested in the film industry and lauded the state\u2019s Film Ready program that prepares communities for the movie and television business.<\/p>\n

Among the celebrities at the ceremony were model and businesswoman Elle Macpherson; Emmy Award-winning actress Tammy Blanchard, a Bayonne resident; Mark Lipsky, executive producer of such Eddie Murphy films as The Nutty Professor, Beverly Hills Cop II, and Coming to America; and actor and executive Paul DeAngelo, a Bayonne resident.<\/p>\n

1888 Studios is one of three major film production facilities under construction in New Jersey, with Lionsgate breaking ground<\/a> recently on a studio in Newark and Netflix building<\/a> another facility at Fort Monmouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Construction has officially begun at 1888 Studios, which will revitalize 58 acres of land near the Bayonne Bridge.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[14629,9,24,63,3005,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-74986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-1888-studios","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-paramount","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}