Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Film companies can put abandoned buildings to work

BY ROCHELLE RILEY • FREE PRESS COLUMNIST • February 3, 2009

There was a wonderful, golden nugget of information in the major revelation today that a new Hollywood film studio and talent agency is opening in Pontiac.

Oh, don't get me wrong: The big news, reported in the Free Press and to be announced later tonight by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, is that Motown Motion Picture Studios is opening the $54-million facility in the first place.

And it's great news that the 600,000-square foot company will employ 5,000 people.

But here's the other exciting thing: The new facility, which will be run by Raleigh Studios, will move into the old General Motors Centerpoint truck plant and office complex.

Yay!

http://www.freep.com/article/20090203/COL10/90203073/1081/Film+companies+can+put+abandoned+buildings+to+work

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