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just said, 'What's happening with the re station?' and the guy goes,
'Yeah, I've got keys for that, too—I'll bring 'em over,'" Matt says.
Ten minutes later. they stepped into the building, and it was love
at rst sight.
Digital Tools to Scout an Analog World
The police station was a critical location that would recur over
the course of the entire series and needed to be pitch perfect. "So
much scripted movement and precise action takes place in that
building and in front of it, so we knew we would have to build it all
from scratch," says Renée.
The interior of the building had already been taken down to its
studs, so it was essentially just an old asbestos-lled shell with a
leaky roof. Once they'd made the deal, Mike Johausen/LMGI got
the roof repaired and took care of the asbestos remediation. Then
Renée and her crew came in and took the building down to its steel
I-beams. Getting it all nished in time for camera was no easy task.
"Painters were tripping over set decorators in that space. It
gives me PTSD just to think of it," laughs Mike.
It was all worth it, according to Brian. "Once you walked out the
front door, you could really look out 360 degrees and it felt period
Mike Johansen/LMGI
