Business at Bridge Studios will be booming just a little bit more once it adds two more sound stages.
The studio's rezoning application for the sound stage expansion passed third reading at the Burnaby council meeting on July 30. The application to rezone 3700 and 3880 Henning St. initially went to council in November 2011.
According to the report from the city's director of planning and building at the time, Basil Luksun, the construction is expected to proceed in three phases.
The first phase is a new sound stage with offices and workshops on the west parcel, the second phase is a minor addition to an existing production stage on the east parcel, and the third phase is another new sound stage and a parking structure on the west parcel.
The facility at Boundary Road and Henning Street currently has six sound studios, as well as North America's larg-est special effects stage, according to the company's website. The popular television series Once Upon a Time is currently filmed at Bridge Studios. The facility has hosted more than 100 productions since opening, the website stated.
Bridge Studios opened in 1987 and began producing the television series MacGyver.
In 1990, the facility provided studio space to Bird On A Wire, starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn, which was one of the first B.C.-filmed Hollywood blockbusters.
