Initially pitched as a one-stop-shop alternative to the mature but spatially fragmented system in Hollywood, Pinewood Atlanta was to be built as a great space for filming. After the initial company that handled the project left, the studio and town are now fully in the hands of local producers. The project is now called Trilith, a 235-acre town built within the 900-acre site of the studios. The town is a a dense, pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use village, with a commercial town center, as FastCompany details:
About 500 people are currently living in the town, which is planned to have a total of 1,400 townhomes, apartments, cohousing units, and 500-square-foot “microhomes.” Housing is available to rent or buy, and Trilith’s developers say it’s luring residents from within the film industry as well as people from other walks of life.
The studio side, now named Trilith Studios, is also being redeveloped, with new facilities geared toward more parts of the business, such as development offices and space for tech companies. These spaces are intended to bring in new types of companies in addition to the 60 vendors already providing production and ancillary services to productions on-site. The town side feeds into this ecosystem, creating the kind of place where people can work on months-long productions or years-long TV series without feeling like they’re living out of a suitcase.
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