Garden State Brickface to do Chelsea Studio job

Real Estate Weekly, August 21, 2002

Garden State Brickface, the tri-state area's premier building resurfacing and remodeling company, announced that the company has been contracted for the restoration of the headquarters of All Mobile Video, Chelsea Studios located at 221 West 26th St. in Manhattan. For this job, Garden State Brickface will be designing and installing a new facade on the entire building.

The 67,500-SF facility, located in the heart of New York's Chelsea area, had been a CBS owned studio and in decades past was home to classic television programs, including "The Patty Duke Show," "Sgt. Bilko," and "Playhouse 90." Currently the studio is home to a number of programs, including "Judge Hatchett" and "The Ricki Lake Show." "The building is in dire need of a facelift," said Eric Duke, president of All Mobile Video. "Garden State Brickface has a wonderful reputation and we know that they are perfect for the job."

"Because the facility houses a number of extremely popular television programs it is visited and seen by a great number of people on a daily basis," said Larry Landes, president of Garden State Brickface. "The current building is comprised of several different buildings that had been joined together over the years, thereby juxtaposing different styles and creating a bit of a jumble. It is our charge and challenge to create a distinctive design and look of uniformity that will compliment the beautiful interiors where the shows are filmed."

The finished facade will incorporate several of our custom products including a hand sculpted limestone block design on the first floor level of the building. A masonry replica cornice will be installed to separate the limestone block from the upper areas of the building which will be a smooth hard coat acrylic stucco system capped off by another more elaborate masonry replica cornice at the roof line. The upper areas will also be separated into panels using a vertical hand sculpted fluted stucco design.