You are about to step inside one of the strangest abandoned spaces I have explored. Building 60 is a surviving industrial hangar from a former military aviation complex, later repurposed as a behind-the-scenes space for film and television set building and storage. Inside, I found a full prison range film set with cells, bars, segregation areas, and more. Upstairs, there was a large boxing gym set and several other partially built environments, all left behind to decay.
What is Building 60
Building 60 is an industrial hangar that remained standing after the base closed in the 1990s. Its size made it useful long after its original purpose ended. At one point, it became the kind of space the film industry needs but rarely talks about publicly, a large, inexpensive interior where sets can be built, stored, and left standing between productions.
The abandoned prison range film set
This was not a small set piece. It was a full range with multiple cells, bars, a segregation area, and the kind of layout designed to look convincing on camera. It is the type of set that takes serious time and money to build, which makes it even more shocking to see it sitting abandoned.
The second floor boxing gym and other sets
Upstairs, the building shifted into a completely different world. A large boxing gym set appeared to be staged for training scenes, and nearby were additional partial sets and fragments. It felt like walking through multiple productions that had been packed away and forgotten in the same place.
