Press Resources & Information
Press Contact
Allan Velez
Chief Business Development Officer
+1 216-682-5695
AllanVelez@IngallsAndCompany.com
Development Status
Stage 01 is in active development. Creative Spaces now has zoning and architectural review board approvals for the campus, with pending landscaping revisions for city review. Ingalls & Co. is not yet accepting production inquiries, as timelines cannot be guaranteed prior to final city approvals for construction.
Ingalls & Co.
A Return to American Excellence
American productions are being priced out. The traditional production hubs have grown increasingly expensive, while the infrastructure and economics needed to sustain production at home have not kept pace. More pictures are leaving American markets for places where the numbers work.
Greater Cleveland presents an unexpected answer. It combines a lower cost of production, a substantial production incentive, a skilled workforce, and access to 60% of North America's population within a day's drive. But despite those advantages, Ohio has no Hollywood-caliber, purpose-built sound stage facility.
Ingalls & Co. is building that missing infrastructure. Creative Spaces will provide Hollywood-caliber, purpose-built sound stages in Greater Cleveland, giving productions the ability to stay in America without sacrificing the economics, technical standards, or skilled workforce they require.
Here American industry was made with thrift, precision, and grit. Here creative fire will grow in an industrial forge. Here, we can make a return to American excellence.
Creative Spaces in Detail
A Factory for Cleveland's Next Great Industry
We're proud of where we're from. We're not building another LA, Atlanta, or Chicago: We're building Cleveland's film factory.
Creative Spaces
A Film Factory
- 4.32 acres (188,179 sq ft)
- Located on E219th St., Euclid, Ohio
- 15 minutes from downtown Cleveland with direct access to I-90 and Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
- Long-term plans include an on-site mill, production design warehouse, post-production facilities, near-site housing for clients, and additional sound stages.
Stage 01 & Beyond
A Forge for Creative Fire
- 15,000 sq ft
- 30 ft. minimum clear height
- 20 ft. drive-in access door
- Full acoustic treatment
- Seven industry-standard 400-amp switches
- Full bathrooms with showers
The Production Offices
A Refinery For Logistics
- 8,100 sq ft
- Collaborative work spaces
- Private offices
- Conference rooms
- Kitchenettes
- Gardens
- Semi-enclosed portico area
Image Asset Library
Download Asset Pack (.zip file)One Company, Three Divisions
Sound Stage Campus
A purpose-built sound stage campus in Euclid, Ohio, designed to serve major productions, local filmmakers, and students alike.
Production Software
Ingalls & Co.'s production-software division, making modern tools for filmmakers using three basic principles: Power. Simplicity. Beauty.
Media Production Services
Tape 30 is Ingalls & Co.'s production division, delivering commercial, branded, and cinematic storytelling from concept through completion.
Demystifying the Jargon
Not every industry term has a clear meaning to those outside of it, so we've explained key terms below.
Sound Stage
A purpose-built building for film production, not simply a large room or warehouse. The stage floor is a vast, open, pillarless space without windows, ceilings high enough for large lighting rigs and multi-story sets, acoustically controlled walls that keep noise out and echoes non-existent, with heavy electrical service capable of supporting an entire production's lighting and equipment. Large drive-in doors allow vehicles, scenery, machinery, and other production equipment to move directly onto the stage.
Production Company
A business that develops, organizes, finances, or physically produces film, television, or other media.
Studio
A physical facility where productions are made (like Creative Spaces). Alternatively, a larger production company (Like Universal Studios). In everyday conversation, the terms can be ambiguous.
Production Office
The administrative and coordination hub for a film or television production. The production office handles the paperwork, scheduling, logistics, communications, and other organizational work that supports the crew and the shoot.
Key People
Click Here to View the Complete List and Bios of Key People and Advisors.
James D Ingalls II
Chief Executive Officer
- Cleveland native and St. Ignatius High School graduate; earned a BFA in Film & TV Production from DePaul University.
- Worked at multi-Emmy Award winning production companies Spirit Juice Studios and Behold, where his projects earned Emmy nominations within two years.
- Created video content for international brands and organizations including Beam Suntory, Lennox International, the Emmy Awards, ISDA, and Knights of Columbus.
- Brings hands-on sound-stage experience from shooting at Cinespace Studios Chicago, informing Ingalls & Co.'s approach to professional production facility operations.
Allan A. Velez Jr
Chief Business Development Officer
- Cleveland native and St. Ignatius High School graduate; studied Business Administration in Marketing at John Carroll University.
- Production experience includes Angela Boehm Casting on Cherry and the locations department for Superman.
- Builds relationships with producers, directors, studios, and regional vendors to bring productions to Cleveland.
Company Facts
- One Company, Three Divisions
- Creative Spaces
- Tape 30
- Simple Suite
- Officially Founded 2024
- In the name, pronounce "& Co." like "co-producer"
In the Press
NEOtrans: "Film Studio Campus Planned for Euclid"
WKYC: "Mission Possible: Cleveland Film, Hollywood-Grade Soundstage, Euclid Project"
The Land: "Planned Euclid Soundstage Aims to Bring Hollywood-Scale Production Indoors"
A New Venture Steeped in History
400 Years of American Excellence
Ingalls & Co.'s brand is intentionally rooted in heritage to reinforce its positioning as a long-term builder of creative and industrial infrastructure. This narrative is particularly authentic in Greater Cleveland, where the region's industrial history, skilled workforce, and culture of making align naturally with the company's mission to develop enduring production capabilities.
Rather than presenting itself as a conventional production company, the brand draws on a specific, four-century family record of American enterprise, craftsmanship, and manufacturing to communicate permanence, credibility, and stewardship. That record begins with Edmund Ingalls, who co-founded Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1629.
It continued through later Ingalls such as railroad magnate Melville Ezra Ingalls, who consolidated the "Big Four" railroad system and financed America's first reinforced-concrete skyscraper, and runs through numerous other names in the wider family, such as Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House series.
Cleveland already knows this name: the Louise H. and David S. Ingalls Foundation has supported the city's institutions since 1953, and the Ingalls Library at the Cleveland Museum of Art carries it still.
The crown in the Ingalls & Co. wordmark comes from a heraldic achievement (coat of arms) adopted for family use in The Genealogy and History of the Ingalls Family in America. It was not purported to be a verified hereditary heraldic achievement, but rather proposed as an emblem for the family to adopt. The crown is therefore used as a historical and symbolic reference to the Ingalls family name.
By embracing Ingalls heritage, Ingalls & Co. transforms its geographic location from a logistical advantage into a strategic brand asset: positioning Cleveland not as an alternative to traditional entertainment markets, but as the foundation for a new, durable center of film and media production, with a trustworthy name already recognized by many.