Talk about food for a starving man, Michigan's new emphasis on chasing entertainment jobs is paying off. Full details about that big movie/TV etc. studio south of Detroit in Allen Park are to be released tomorrow afternoon, but here's what the papers have now;
(there are 4 other major and several mid-sized studios also in the works in various areas of Michigan)
Detroit Free Press:
Detroit News:
The site at 1-94 and M-39 (Southfield Rd.)
(there are 4 other major and several mid-sized studios also in the works in various areas of Michigan)
Detroit Free Press:
>
City of Allen Park officials will announce a major movie studio deal Tuesday that will create a $146-million, full-service movie, television and new media production studio.
The factory will be built on 104 acres in Allen Park and include 750,000 square feet of production, post-production and production support services facilities with eight sound stages.
Details will be announced Tuesday, but preliminary information released by a spokesman for the project said the deal involves investors from Los Angeles and Michigan, and is headed by a Hollywood executive with Michigan roots.
The studio will employ “thousands†of skilled workers, most of them in unionized trades, a spokesman for the project said. Residents of Allen Park and “laid off union workers from across the region will get first shot at the jobs,†the spokesman, Roger Martin, said Monday morning.
>
City of Allen Park officials will announce a major movie studio deal Tuesday that will create a $146-million, full-service movie, television and new media production studio.
The factory will be built on 104 acres in Allen Park and include 750,000 square feet of production, post-production and production support services facilities with eight sound stages.
Details will be announced Tuesday, but preliminary information released by a spokesman for the project said the deal involves investors from Los Angeles and Michigan, and is headed by a Hollywood executive with Michigan roots.
The studio will employ “thousands†of skilled workers, most of them in unionized trades, a spokesman for the project said. Residents of Allen Park and “laid off union workers from across the region will get first shot at the jobs,†the spokesman, Roger Martin, said Monday morning.
>
>Part of the studio will occupy a former Visteon research and development center at 16630 Southfield Road in Allen Park.
Burtka said then he expected roughly 3,500 permanent, full-time jobs to be created as part of the project.
In a Monday statement, Burtka said the project "amounts to an economic development blockbuster for the city, Wayne County and state."
>
Burtka said then he expected roughly 3,500 permanent, full-time jobs to be created as part of the project.
In a Monday statement, Burtka said the project "amounts to an economic development blockbuster for the city, Wayne County and state."
>
Comment