3,194 square feet of second-floor warehouse with daylight on three sides, in a 1912 can factory a few minutes from downtown Roanoke. Nine heavy timber posts on a roughly fifteen-foot grid, original wood plank floors, exposed brick, a beamed ceiling with the ductwork left where it is, and skylights over the middle. No staging, no set dressing, no faux-industrial finishes - it is the actual building.
The light moves all day. Windows run down three walls, so you can shoot into it, across it or away from it depending on the hour, and the late afternoon throws window-pane shadows the length of the floor. After dark the Mill Mountain Star sits framed in the south windows.
The room books whole-floor, which is the point: multi-camera setups, forty people on set, audience-present recording - work that needs the space rather than a corner of it.
Load-in is a 4,500 lb freight elevator with a lot right outside the door. Free parking in front of the building, plus free unmetered street parking.
What is here: fifty-three chairs and tables, a permanent conference table seating eight with outlets through the tabletop, quad outlets on the posts across the open floor, a large screen on a rolling cart, a pull-down projection screen, a whiteboard, a painted chalkboard wall framed by the brick, guest wifi on its own network, and restrooms on the same floor. Heated and air conditioned year-round.
What is not here, stated plainly: no projector, no installed sound system, no lighting rig, no camera, no grip or electric, no kitchen and no crew. Power is at the conference table and on the posts across the floor - the folding tables have no outlets of their own, so plan cable runs from the posts. Bring what you need; the elevator and the lot make that easy.
Cleaning is included in the hourly rate. No cleaning fee, no service charge, nothing added at the end.
The building is the old Virginia Can Company complex, 46,000 square feet, individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2006. The Continental Can ghost sign is still painted on the south parapet.
A note on access: there is an elevator to the second floor and accessible restrooms on the first floor beside it. The step-free route into the building has to be opened for you, so message me ahead if anyone on the crew needs it.
I am on site most days and quick to answer.