Great Point, Yonkers owner of Lionsgate Studios, buys production designer of Big Broadway Hudson Scenic

Robert Halm’s Great Point Studios has acquired Hudson Scenic, a Tony-nominated stage builder, custom manufacturing and automation services for theater, film, television and theme parks, on several loans: Hamilton Hedestown Aladdin Y Lion King At the Times Square prom.

The store is located just one mile from the Hudson River on Lionsgate’s new manufacturing campus in Yonkers, owned and operated by Great Point. Halmi said that given the explosion in studio space demand and massive waste, led by “every streamer who wants faster shows, whatever you can do to speed it up” helps, in this case, “build a set. in front of them “. [productions] Reach here with a comfortable studio shuttle, directly in front of the construction site, which can be time-consuming.

And you will get cheaper kits because we have 10,000 square foot facility. We have a tree. We have steel. “And we can deliver it the day before you need it,” she told Deadline.

Halmi declined to discuss the purchase price, but said Hudson Scenic currently has “$ 30 million a year in the business and we hope to triple that” by working for Yonkers, where Lionsgate anchors and owns the rights, and for future development projects. she studies. . Halmi and Fehmi Zeko, founding partner of Great Point, are looking at Georgia and Los Angeles.

Hudson Scenic was founded in 1980 by Neil Mazela who will remain as CEO along with key members of his team. The company offers custom fabrication, automation and finishing based on more than four decades of hands-on experience. The store includes two adjacent buildings spanning over 120,000 square feet less than 30 minutes from Grand Central Terminal.

Lionsgate Studios Yonkers has three large soundstages that will grow to 20 when the project is completed, as well as post-production facilities, projection rooms, office and auxiliary spaces, and the back of city streets. The facility “marks the beginning of an exciting new era in East Coast manufacturing and we are thrilled to be a part of it,” said Mazela.

“I’m 71,” he told Deadline. So after 70 years you think: what is an inheritance plan? And there weren’t any. Inherited by anyone. And selling a similar business at any time is a secret. She wanted a buyer who would continue hiring employees. “

He said union contracts are being drawn up and are expected to be completed by the end of the year.

Halmi said Lionsgate first supplied it to neighborhood gardeners. Lionsgate called and said: You need to meet them. “They do a lot for us.” So I went to Neil’s and took a tour, and they had the most amazing set of building shops, building kits for any cult show.

“This is one of the things that brings luck from time to time”, to quote “the best construction company in the category as part of our business”.