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Originally Posted by Via Chicago
Yea, Cinespace is largely unused since Boss and a couple other shows ceased production. Its also why they sold a large chunk of land to Lagunitas for their new brewery facility, I'd imagine. Lot of space there.
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This is not accurate from what I've heard. They leased, did not sell, half of one of their buildings to LaGunitas because it was the closest building to the train tracks and could not be used for filming since those tracks are rather busy with freight and Metra traffic and the vibrations and noise disrupted filming. They still use the north half of the building for filming Chicago Fire.
But yes, your point still stands that they have plenty of space available. I still think it would be interesting to see another studio or similar use open up in some of the other vacant industrial buildings in that area and shoot for some synergy in the area. Maybe they could do something with the Western Ave intermodal yards across Western Ave from there?
Also, the city and state have been offering some pretty insane incentives for the film industry to locate here. They threatened to revoke them last year and Cinespace squealed like a stuck pig.