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Old Chicago Stock Yards Bank building set to be transformed into premier music recording complex
FEBRUARY 26, 2025 | CBS News Chicago
A historic and long-abandoned building on the edge of the former Union Stock Yards site will soon be entering a new chapter. A proposal by the City of Chicago aims to transform the former Stock Yards Bank building, at 4150 S. Halsted St. at Exchange Avenue, into a state-of-the-art recording complex. It would be the first of its kind in the Midwest.
Scoring stage to transform Chicago stockyards site
FEBRUARY 6, 2025 | Daily Commercial News
“The Chicago music community is moving ahead with a grand plan to build one of the largest scoring stages in the United States and the biggest in the Midwest. Led by non-profit Third Coast Music (TCM), the plans call for the redevelopment of the historic Chicago stockyards bank building on the city’s south side and the construction of a new building across the street.”
Complex for making movie music may rise at former Chicago Stockyards Bank Building on South Side
DECEMBER 29, 2024 | Chicago Sun-Times
“The $80 million development includes a scoring stage that would be among the largest in the country.”
What’s behind a proposed movie music production complex on Chicago’s South Side?
DECEMBER 10, 2024 | WBEZ Chicago
“Third Coast Music, a barely three-year-old nonprofit, won the city’s call for proposals to develop the landmarked former Stockyards Bank Building and an adjacent empty lot at 41st and Halsted streets. The winning proposal, designed by architecture firm HED and announced in November, will transform the site into an $80 million music production center and event space.”
DECEMBER 2, 2024 | @worldbusinesschicago
“Chicago nonprofit Third Coast Music envisions transforming the landmark building at 4120 S. Halsted St., acquired by the city in 2000, into the centerpiece of a ‘scoring stage’ complex where musical ensembles of up to 100 people could record, with additional spaces for postproduction, special events, a cafe and a Chicago music museum.”
City envisions transforming vacant South Side bank building into $80 million recording complex
NOVEMBER 19, 2024 | Chicago Tribune
“Chicago nonprofit Third Coast Music envisions transforming the landmark building at 4120 S. Halsted St., acquired by the city in 2000, into the centerpiece of a ‘scoring stage’ complex where musical ensembles of up to 100 people could record, with additional spaces for postproduction, special events, a cafe and a Chicago music museum.”
Historic Stock Yards Bank Could Become Music Recording Studio, Learning Center
NOVEMBER 19, 2024 | Block Club Chicago
“The city’s planning department has selected nonprofit Third Coast Music’s proposal to develop the landmarked bank into a $80 million, state-of-the-art media production complex.”
$80M film-scoring studio, music school wanted for stockyards
NOVEMBER 19, 2024 | The Real Deal
“City of Chicago could sell historic building for $1.9M to Third Coast Music.”
Stockyards sites proposed for $80 million music campus to support Chicago’s film and TV industry
NOVEMBER 19, 2024 | Crain’s Chicago Business
“A pair of long-unused sites at the Halsted Street entrance to the old Union Stock Yard is being pitched for a two-building, $80 million music campus that would include a state-of-the-art facility for producing film scores, education programs in a historic building and related ventures.”
State-of-the-Art Recording Facilities Proposed for Stockyards Bank Site
NOVEMBER 18, 2024 | Chicago Department of Planning and Development
“An $80 million recording complex proposed by Third Coast Music is the winning respondent to a City of Chicago Request for Proposals (RFP) for the landmark Stockyard Bank and adjacent land in New City, the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) announced today.”
Third Coast Music seeks to build Chicago’s First Scoring Stage
MARCH 25, 2024 | Reel Chicago
“With a vision to transform the city into a thriving hub for music in film, TV, and independent production, Third Coast Music aims to revolutionize the local music scene by providing a state-of-the-art facility that caters to diverse musical genres and talents.”