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.
Doors open September 1 · 1250 Library St., Detroit
The working day is split three ways.
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
Co-working
C
Stage rental
LSS
Library St.
Production gear-ready
Recurring monthly price
Production peer network
Shoot + post, one roof
A Solo lease · B Co-working · C Stage rental · LSS Library St.
✓ Covered · ◐ Partial · ✗ Missing
A solo studio rents the room. A co-work rents the desk.
A stage rents the hour. We rent the working day.
Who's stuck in it.
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 where the whole working day already fits.
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. Upstairs, a Clubhouse loft with dedicated desks, conference, and color-accurate edit suites behind glass.
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.
Five decisions the whole business rests on.
01
Open in phases, on dates we publish.
Phase one opens September 1: both bays, the gear cage, hair and makeup, the lounge and desks on the Library St. windows. The 6th-floor Clubhouse follows in the fall with member desks, conference, and the edit and color suite. The full second floor lands spring 2027. Nothing on this site is drawn as finished when it isn't.
02
Cap the membership at what the room holds.
6 Executive Producer desks, 10 Director memberships, 20 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 as each space comes online, 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 just 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: the NHL, the NFL, ESPN, the Stanley Cup Final, and a decade of Michigan camera and post work. They are on the floor because they need this building too.
The founders.
Dan Mannes
Co-Founder
@danmannesLinkedInFilmmaker, 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.
- NHL
- Detroit Red Wings
- Little Caesars Arena
- Greyson Clothiers
Troy Anderson
Co-Founder
@andytroyersonLinkedInSince 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.
- NHL
- NFL
- Stanley Cup Final
- Iron Fish Distillery
Steven Stark
Co-Founder
@stevenlstarkLinkedInDP, 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.
- Detroit Lions
- NFL
- ESPN
- UFC
Three openings, dated honestly.
Nothing on this site is drawn as finished when it isn't. Each phase below is either open, in fit-out, or planned, and it says which.
Doors open
September 1, 2026
Phase one, the front half
Both stage bays, the gear cage, hair and makeup, and the lounge and desks on the Library St. windows. Booking and membership go live the same day.
In fit-out
Fall 2026
The Clubhouse, 6th floor
A private loft upstairs: dedicated member desks, a conference room behind glass, and the edit and color suite. Every tier grows as it comes online.
Planned
Spring 2027
Phase two, the expansion
The back half of the second floor: reception, open co-working, lockers, the bar and cafe, the conversation pit, and the workshop studio.
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
That is 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 36 members are locking their rate into.