Peters Hedges His Bets on Ares Warehouse

Go or no go? Peters won’t commit to staying in current warehouse or moving to new facility

In an interview published April 17 on the Fan Film Factor blog, Axanar producer Alec Peters said he’d won more time to decide whether to keep his current 6,000 square-foot facility or move to a cheaper warehouse, half as large, that he can afford with his current Patreon donations.

Peters said his landlord will let him stay until August before having to choose whether to move to the cheaper facility.

Alec Peters

Halfway there. Earlier this week, the Ares Studios Patreon passed the $2,000 a month milestone, putting Peters just over halfway to the $4,000 a month he needs donors to give him so he can remain in the larger facility.

Donations are volatile. Peters admits relying on fluctuating donations may not be the most reliable way to afford the $48,000 his facility will need to raise each year.

Say goodbye? He says, “Will hundreds of donors still be giving us enough money each month to pay the rent? Or will we have to shut down and say good-bye to these beautiful sets? … Each month we see a small dip when people receive their monthly invoice from Patreon and decide they no longer want to contribute. So far, those have been minor hiccups.”

Meanwhile, Peters refused to commit to whether the reconstructed captain’s quarters set originally built for the doomed Axanar feature would ever appear in the long-delayed Axanar short films.

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