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A new company headquarters is being built in Mansfield, fueled partially by a 72-acre film industry development nearby.
Infinity Sound Ltd., an audio visual, theatrical lighting and rigging company, is planning to build a 23,000-square-foot headquarters at 411 Easy Dr. in Mansfield. The company had previously been located in Grand Prairie.
Max Curry, Infinity Sound's CEO, said the company serves most of the state, ranging from municipalities to indoor and outdoor venues. He said the decision to build a headquarters was due to rapid growth, and expects to grow his team to more than 100 before expanding to other offices.
"We looked around, looking for all the different areas and spaces, and that seemed to be the best fit for us," Curry said.
Construction on Infinity Sound's estimated $4 million building was planned to start in January 2025, but due to a ransomware attack to a cloud provider, construction likely won't start until the spring, Curry said.
Mansfield City Council unanimously approved a $200,000 grant in an economic development agreement. According to the agreement, Infinity Sound has to maintain at least 55 employees and spend at least $3.6 million in capital investment on the building. The company has to occupy the building by the end of 2026, according to the agreement.
The new headquarters will be next door to a planned 72-acre film studio project by Super Studios USA, expected to create 2,000 jobs. That project, which is estimated to cost $70 million, will have sound stages, mill spaces, hotels, restaurants, coffee shops and retail space to support film and production crews.
Curry said he's excited about the Super Studios USA project because his company works on LEDs and other lighting to make those productions possible.
"We see a really good opportunity to be able to support our neighbor there," Curry said.
Jason Moore, executive director of the Mansfield Economic Development Corp., said Infinity Sound is one of a handful of companies that have reached out with interest in supporting the Super Studios development. He said he's received several calls from film producers and from mill shops, which typically handle carpentry and building structures on film sets.
Moore said Super Studios changed development partners, and the economic development corporation is renegotiating terms of an agreement with the city. While he declined to provide more details about the agreement, he did say the new development partner wants to expand the project, and there will be elements of a public/private partnership.
"We're still working with [Super Studios] very closely," Moore said. "And then a new developer that's actually expanded the project to surrounding areas as well. So this ended up being a larger project."
Mansfield is about 20 miles south of Fort Worth, which has a growing film industry of its own. The film industry in Cowtown contributed $655 million and more than 20,000 jobs to the Fort Worth economy over the course of eight years, according to a Fort Worth Film Commission report.
Fort Worth has been used to film multiple Taylor Sheridan shows, including "Yellowstone" and "1883." Studio 101, which produced "Yellowstone," is partnering with Tarrant County College and the film commission to create a fast-track certificate program to fuel the area's film industry workforce.
