Officials at the Miami Beach-based studio development company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Las Vegas-based Harvard Scientific Inc., met this week with the owner of a vacant $11 million warehouse in the blighted Miami community of Wynwood to discuss a possible acquisition.
The discussions with the nonprofit Wynwood Economic Development Corp., are contingent on the resolution of the community agency's long-standing legal disputes with the city of Miami, Daniel De Liege, La Playa Studios president, tells GlobeSt.com.
The company is continuing discussions with owners of other possible sites for the proposed back-lot facility. "That history has to be taken care of," De Liege says.
With the help of economic development funding bonds, La Playa Studios plans to develop a headquarters location on an undetermined site on South Beach. The site would contain corporate offices, music-recording and TV-filming studios and some retail space.
Those facilities would complement the pre-production and post-production filming operations planned for the proposed back-lot facility.
"We've identified several sites, but we haven't picked one yet," De Liege says. "We're in the processing of eliminating sites."
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