The former Toronto Film Studios facility has been raised out of mothballs.

Adding to the downtown studio space inventory, Ken and Linda Ferguson have partnered with SmartCentres to reopen eight of the 16 soundstages at 629 Eastern Avenue under the Revival 629 brand.

TFS was closed by Sam Reisman’s Rose Corp. after the Filmport studio was opened in 2008, later to be renamed Pinewood Toronto Studios under new management.

Rose and SmartCentres were later denied an application to build a retail mall on the downtown site, which left the former Toronto Film Studios in limbo, and for a time as a temporary jail during the 2010 G20 Summit.

Now the facility has reopened in Toronto’s Leslieville neighbourhood, with three production offices, and additional office space to open soon.

Episodes of Warehouse 13 and Nikita have already been shot on the soundstages at Revival 629, and more stages are set to open.

In addition, three carpentry shops are already operating, with the biggest at 7,800 square feet in size.

The reopening comes as Toronto’s bustling film and TV infrastructure shows no signs of slowing down as big-budget, FX-heavy Hollywood shoots continue arriving in town in search of studio space.

The city’s rebounding fortunes follow Ontario introducing a 25% all-spend tax credit, and major studio shoots like Guillermo del Toro’s mega-monster film Still Seas and the Total Recall remake being shot at Pinewood Toronto Studios.

That major facility on Toronto’s Portlands district is expanding its studio space as it joins local studios and equipment suppliers in servicing foreign and Canadian productions before the camera locally.

Revival 629 also plans brick-and-beam corporate offices for media companies, and a major push into digital media, with an accelerator and start-up offices for animation, video gaming, app development and interactive media.