Albuquerque Studios' soundstages booked solid

September 18, 2007 $74 million production facility that he'd been building for a year had finally opened on April 9, and he was anticipating a relaxing Fourth of July weekend. [...] Jeremy Hariton, executive director of the studios, phoned. With four 24,000-square-foot stages and two 18,000-square-foot stages filled, Smerigan is beginning a phase-two expansion with two more stages, 47,000 square feet of offices, 20,000 square feet of retail space and 8,000 square feet of executive bungalows, along with the 100,000-square-foot animation building they're constructing for Sony Imageworks -- all to be finished Labor Day 2008 -- bringing the total cost to $121 million.

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