Studio & Sound Stage Development Advisory Services
Shadowcast is among the country's leading independent studio and sound stage real estate experts. We help clients of all sizes - from individual property owners to leading institutional capital groups - get smart on this rapidly growing, niche asset class. Our purpose is to transform a client's abstract idea into an actionable, bankable business plan. Our expertise includes site programming, operational planning, financial underwriting, capital markets and development management of ground-up, purpose-built production studios, as well as repositioned industrial properties. Our portfolio of projects includes all leading U.S. media production markets, with particular focus on New York City, Atlanta, New Jersey, Albuquerque and Chicago.
National footprint
Shadowcast has helped institutional capital groups, private equity, REITs, land owners and developers across the country plan, underwrite, capitalize and deliver the next generation of purpose-built, studio-grade feature film, episodic TV & streaming sound stages and media production studios.
Sound stage space race
Rapidly growing investment in original productions, fueled by ever increasing streaming consumption, has caused a significant shortage in availability of studio-grade sound stage and media production space.
Studio Planning & Development Expertise
Development Management
Site Identification & Planning
Site Identification & Planning
We partner with institutional capital groups and land owners in need of an experienced studio development partner. Our commercial RE experience and media production expertise make us a uniquely suited partner to deliver a studio-grade facility.
Site Identification & Planning
Site Identification & Planning
Site Identification & Planning
Shadowcast helps partners and 3rd-party sponsors/developers assess site suitability and property characteristics to optimize a plan that addresses the demands of the major global production market and maximizes real estate and ancillary revenue potential.
Studio Programming
Site Identification & Planning
Operating Proforma & Assumptions
Studios come in all manner of sizes and configurations. Our familiarity with each major U.S. film production market and the operational requirements of leading production companies enables us to optimize proposed facility planning based on best-in-class studio programming knowledge.
Operating Proforma & Assumptions
Have a site or project you'd like to discuss?
Operating Proforma & Assumptions
Shadowcast has built the industry's most comprehensive competitive market-by-market database of independent studio information, including: stage rents, support space rents, vendor revenue share, ancillary revenue sources and OpEx information.
Financial Underwriting & Capital Markets
Have a site or project you'd like to discuss?
Have a site or project you'd like to discuss?
Our proprietary studio development underwriting model and capital markets offering package helps crystalize each project's investment opportunity, providing clients with a highly effective tool for raising construction debt and institutional equity.
Have a site or project you'd like to discuss?
Have a site or project you'd like to discuss?
Have a site or project you'd like to discuss?
Get in touch. Shadowcast has helped institutional sponsors, property owners, and leading developers activate studio projects in primary and secondary production markets across the country.
Industry Partners
