It is based in a 200,000 square feet (19,000 m2) refurbished warehouse previously occupied by electronics company Sharp.
[1] The development of the facility was headed by Sue Woodward, former Managing Director at the Granada Television franchise.
In February 2011, Tiger Aspect Productions selected The Sharp Project to film a comedy series, Mount Pleasant, for Sky One.
[4] In 2011, Lime Pictures and Objective Productions filmed Fresh Meat, a comedy for Channel 4 based on a group of students and their experiences at their first year at university.
[5] In 2015 Objective Productions filmed the fourth and final series of Fresh Meat at The Sharp Project.