1888 Studios

[3] At 1.5M million gross square feet, reports say it will be the largest ground-up movie studio complex in North America.

[4] The waterfront brownfield site on the Kill van Kull and Newark Bay was a former Texaco site rezoned in 2020 in a redevelopment plan to permit a film studio to be built.

[5][6] When completed, it will be New Jersey's largest film and television studio[7] and will include a part of the Hackensack RiverWalk.

The City of Bayonne floated a bond of $65 million to support the project.

[10] Projected to cost over $1 billion, it is being spearheaded by Arpad Busson with incentives from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.