About
A Club Built for the Work
Library St. Studios is a production club at 1250 Library St. in downtown Detroit: a membership facility where a working photographer, filmmaker, editor, or producer can shoot, cut, and finish in the same building, on a monthly rate instead of a lease. Everything we know is on this page, in order: what the problem is, what we built, how it works, who is building it, when each piece opens, and where it sits.
Accepting applications now · Booking now, first day November 1, 2026
The Split
Shoot, cut, and finish under one roof. Today that work is split across three options a working creative has to choose between, and none of them covers all of it.
A
Solo Lease
B
Shared Office
C
Stage Rental
LSS
Library St.
Production Gear-Ready
Recurring Monthly Price
Production Peer Network
Shoot + Post, One Roof
A Solo Lease · B Shared Office · C Stage Rental · LSS Library St.
✓ Covered · ◐ Partial · ✗ Missing
A solo studio rents the room. A shared office rents the desk.
A stage rents the hour. We rent the working day.
The Disciplines
Eight production disciplines, one floor. Pick yours.
Photographers
Pain
Renting strobe-friendly space ad hoc kills margins. Home studios cap client tier.
Pull
Member-rate shoot hours on the stage, real lighting infrastructure, and a client-presentable cafe/bar steps from set.
One Floor
Two stage bays with real lighting infrastructure, blackout, and 12-foot ceilings. An owned gear cage members draw from at member rates. Hair and makeup, a lounge, and desks on the Library St. windows, with four hot desks Crew members and up can book on days the floor is free.
A member shoots in the morning, cuts in the afternoon, and shows a client the result in a room that looks like a studio, without loading a single case back into a car. The monthly rate replaces a lease that only pencils if you are booked solid, and the discount on stage hours means the membership pays for itself before the club access counts for anything.
The Cross-Pollination Is the Product
Agencies hire crew from the Library. Members refer clients to each other. Sister production company Detroit Picture Co. crews and cuts from the club.
The Method
01
Start With One Floor, and Grow at the Right Pace
Unit 21 takes bookings now, for November 1 on: both bays, the gear cage, hair and makeup, the lounge and four hot desks on the Library St. windows. A production club is still the goal; for now the floor is booked for shoots first. Nothing on this site is drawn as finished when it isn't.
02
Cap the Membership at What the Room Holds
1 Executive Producer desk, 3 Director memberships, 6 Crew memberships. The cap is physical, not a marketing device. When a tier fills, approved applications go on the waitlist in order received, and waitlisted members get first claim on a place that opens, at the rate they applied under.
03
Run Two Revenue Lines Against One Lease
Recurring membership underwrites the floor. Hourly stage and gear rental fills the hours members aren't using, at $120 an hour per bay and $240 for the whole space. Members book the same rooms at 10, 20, or 30 percent off depending on tier, which is what makes a membership pay for itself.
04
Make the Club a Channel, Not a Landlord
Workshops, interviews, podcasts, member stories, and original shows are produced on the floor and star the membership. Programming is the marketing, the recruiting, and the reason a member's month renews.
05
Keep Real Work Flowing Through the Building
Detroit Picture Co., our sister production company, crews and cuts from the club. Agencies hire crew out of the Library. The floor is never a room waiting for someone to book it.
Three working Detroit production people, not landlords. Between them, from the jobs they held before Library St.: the NHL, the NFL, ESPN, the Stanley Cup Final, and a decade of Michigan camera and post work. These are personal credits, not studio clients. They are on the floor because they need this building too.
The Partners
Dan Mannes
Partner
InstagramLinkedInFilmmaker, editor/colorist, and photographer. Dan spent nine years with the Detroit Red Wings, rising from production assistant to Coordinating Producer and building content for the team, Little Caesars Arena, and District Detroit. Today he produces and edits for NHL Productions, shoots for Greyson Clothiers, and runs day-to-day operations of the campus and the production company.
Personal credits, from earlier roles
- NHL
- Detroit Red Wings
- Little Caesars Arena
- Greyson Clothiers
Troy Anderson
Partner
InstagramLinkedInSince 2013, Troy has covered more than 300 professional sporting events across the NHL, NFL, PWHL, and NCAA, including the Stanley Cup Final, the NHL and NFL Drafts, and the NFC Championship Game. A videographer, photographer, producer, editor, and director, he has also served since 2022 as Marketing Manager at Iron Fish Distillery, one of Michigan's leading craft spirits brands.
Personal credits, from earlier roles
- NHL
- NFL
- Stanley Cup Final
- Iron Fish Distillery
Steven Stark
Partner
InstagramLinkedInDP, director, and editor for over a decade across Michigan. Steven co-founded Infyer Productions in 2013 and has shot for the Detroit Lions, the NFL, ESPN, FOX Sports, Bally Sports Detroit, and the UFC, along with four seasons covering the Drone Racing League. High-end camera craft and post discipline: the senior practitioner emerging creatives learn alongside.
Personal credits, from earlier roles
- Detroit Lions
- NFL
- ESPN
- UFC
The Timeline
Nothing on this site is drawn as finished when it isn't. What is open says so, and anything later gets a date when it has one.
First bookings
November 1, 2026
Unit 21, the Front of the Second Floor
Both stage bays, the gear cage, hair and makeup, the lounge and four hot desks on the Library St. windows. Booking and membership go live the same day.
No date
Coming in the future
More Room, When It Pays
Editing suites, a photo bay and a cafe are ideas for later, not promises. They get a date here when they have one.
1250 Library St.
The second floor of the Remick Building, on Library Street in downtown Detroit, a short walk from Grand Circus Park and Capitol Park. Street and garage parking sit within a block, and freight access means carts and cases never go through the lobby.
Built in 1907 for Jerome H. Remick & Co., then one of the country's leading publishers of ragtime music, with offices and printing presses under one roof. Hudson's sold toys and then music here, and the National Register listed the building in 1996. Creative work has been made in this building for over a century. We're the next verse.
1250 Library St. · Detroit, Michigan 48226
The Whole of It
The rest is the building. Walk the floor plan, price the bays, read the tiers, and see the room the first 10 members are locking their rate into.