In just over two years, British Columbia’s booming film and television production industry will receive much-needed new additional studio capacity to accept more highly coveted work from Hollywood.

In late 2021, Martini Film Studios (MFS) began construction on its expansion facility on an undeveloped 33-acre site just southwest of the Trans-Canada Highway’s 216th Street interchange in Langley Township.

The campus will have 16 sound stages — each at 23,000 sq ft for a total sound stage floor area of about 370,000 sq ft. Additionally, there will also be 224,000 sq ft of support space buildings, such as for mill shops, wardrobe, props, and construction bays.

Two five-storey buildings also offer about 135,000 sq ft of office space to further support production operational and planning needs. This brings the total campus building floor area to about 730,000 sq ft.

And to take into account the growing use of electric vehicles, the company is installing 80 charging stations across the lot.

All of this is timed for a completion in the middle of 2024, and it will be one of the largest film and television production facilities in Canada.

Martini Film Studios first opened in the region in 2017 within two existing warehouse buildings at 9390-9390 198th Street and 19714 96th Avenue, near Highway 1’s 200th Street interchange in Langley Township. Both existing facilities have a total floor area of about 250,000 sq ft.

But unlike MFS’ first two buildings and most other studios that have opened elsewhere in Metro Vancouver over the past two decades, the new 216th Street campus is being built entirely from scratch with purpose-designed structures to fulfill the most optimized needs of productions.

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