"This facility will provide Scharff Weisberg with the space andcapacity they need," says Emanuel Stern, president and COO ofHartz, in a prepared release. The new tenant's Lighting Divisionhas already begun its move from Long Island City, and the company'sother divisions are expected to be in place by the end of June.

"In terms of real estate, we've been victims of our own successfor the past three years," says Josh Weisberg, president of ScharffWeisberg, in a prepared release. "We have been forced to juggle ourlimited shop capacity s our business has expanded. "This new spacewill allow our audio, video and lighting shops to providewell-coordinated service.

"We'll be the only facility in the metro area that will housestate-of-the-art lighting, audio, convergence and video shops underthe same roof," Weisberg says in the release. "We'll now have morethan adequate space to prep a show of any size while keeping thesame distance from Midtown Manhattan as we have now."