MIDDLETOWN, N.Y.—The 20 or so people who gathered for the opening of a new film and sound studio in Middletown on Nov. 13 were dwarfed in comparison to the 60-foot-high walls and 60,000 square feet of floor space.
The size and structure of the building, which sits on Midland Ave. Ext., is what attracted Eric Michelson, the owner of Michelson Studio in New York City, to the building in the first place. This is his Michelson Studio II, and it’s almost ready to open.
For about the past year and a half, Michelson has been renovating the former rail car repair shop cum salt shed to be one of the largest sound and movie studios in the Hudson Valley, if not the state.
“I flipped,” he said, describing his reaction when he saw it for the first time.
Anytime there's a lot of production going on someplace, people move there for the work.
