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Robert De Niro’s Sleek, New Seven-Story Wildflower Studios Gears Up In Astoria

Robert De Niro's Wildflower Studios, with an unique vertical design, is ramping up In Queens as sweetened New York production incentives take hold.

Back in 1999, Robert De Niro was pushing to build a New York City soundstage at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a project he lost to other developers who turned it into Steiner Studios, a mainstay of NYC production. Wildflower opened its doors last fall with the industry emerging from the long tail of Hollywood strikes and shaken by a slowdown in television production as media companies retrenched. Wildflower, a seven-story structure with over 775,000 square feet, billed as the first vertical film studio, is itself highly attractive with multi-toned earth hues, modern, open and light.

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