Echelon’s Two Brooklyn Film Campuses Add 10 Soundstages to the City’s Pipeline
NYCEDC and the New York City Industrial Development Agency closed $552 million in transactions supporting planned studios in Bushwick and Red Hook. Bungalow Projects says the expanded state tax credit is helping fuel production demand.
By Olivia Park · October 10, 2026 · 3 min read
NEW YORK — Two planned film and television campuses in Brooklyn are adding 10 soundstages to New York City’s production pipeline, backed by public-sector transactions and private construction financing. In October 2025, New York City Economic Development Corporation, the New York City Industrial Development Agency and developer Bungalow Projects announced transactions totaling $552 million to support studios at 242 Seigel Street in Bushwick and 176 Dikeman Street in Red Hook. Together, the projects are designed to provide roughly 600,000 square feet of production facilities and address the city’s shortage of purpose-built stages.
The developer’s financing announcement describes six stages at 242 Seigel Street in Bushwick, totaling 102,000 square feet of stage space, as well as production-support and office areas. A second campus at 176 Dikeman Street in Red Hook is planned with four stages and associated support space. The city’s release said the projects would be all-electric and expected to generate jobs through construction and operations; those are projections, not realized hiring totals. A June 2026 report by Bushwick Daily described a crane assembly at the Bushwick site, evidence of construction activity rather than a completed studio.
New York State’s film-production tax-credit program is part of the broader policy landscape. Empire State Development says qualifying productions may be eligible for a 30% credit on qualified production expenses, subject to program rules and funding. NYCEDC’s project announcement relayed Bungalow co-founder Travis Feehan’s assessment that the expanded credit is fueling more production activity and positioning the campuses to serve that demand. The state program supports eligible productions; the city transactions and separately announced private financing are the construction support described for Echelon.
Construction activity was visible at the Bushwick address in June 2026, when Bushwick Daily reported a weekend street closure for crane assembly at the site. The stages remain future capacity rather than operating soundstages. For crews and producers, the next milestones are completion and the first productions to use the new facilities. The campuses are also part of a wider effort to keep more film and television work in New York by pairing production space with local workforce programs. Their long-term impact will depend on how consistently projects book the stages and whether the added facilities support durable employment across production, technical services and construction.