Alan Suna
Alan Suna
access hundred public
The public hasn't had access to this part of the waterfront in over a hundred years.
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We just stumbled on the idea of studios because the spaces we had were big, open and large, and we were told New York City didn't have a lot of those.
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The world has changed, sets have gotten much, much larger, the complexity of the way movies are shot is just so much more advanced. Special effects are not limited to explosions.
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We didn't know anything about the business. We made a lot of mistakes, but we learned a lot of things along the way.
bringing people space work
We're bringing people down to a waterfront that hasn't had accessibility in over 100 years. It'll be a 2-4/7 space for living, work and leisure.
gem
It's a little gem of a building, and we're going to have a use for it that's appropriate.
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It has truly brought New York to a new level of life. I don't want to say resurrected because resurrected means you were dead first and then you rose from the ashes. But work was diminishing, and the tax credit program has changed that around dramatically for the entire industry.