What's happening with Hollywood East in Plymouth MA? For those of you that are just tuning into this news, here is a brief highlight of what is planned.
Hollywood is coming to town. Plymouth Rock Studios has entered into an agreement to purchase the Waverly Oaks Golf Course and build their $400+ million studio complex on this beautiful piece of real estate consisting of 240 acres. It is proposed that it will contain a state of the art move production studio, 14 sound stages, a luxurious movie theatre, a 10 acre back lot, offices, a hotel, shops and a restaurant.
The Master Site Plan has been approved by the Plymouth Planning Board even though the project did not receive approval for the 50 million dollar I-Cube funding from the state. It was feared that if the funding was not received, then the project would not go forward. Enter stage left, the Plymouth Rock Studios dream team. They were getting suspicous that this might happen, so they were working on "Plan B" and have secured private investors to help with the construction of the project. They are still moving forward and plan to break ground on the road in the very near future. The promise of jobs for the area is drawing a great deal of interest. Back in Novemember, Denis Hanks, Plymouth's economic develpoment director reported that the studio pledged to creat 94 studio operation jobs along with 1,800 on the production side. With estimates of another 1,000 jobs to come after in a number of related fields. This would be very welcome news for many in the community. This just released from PRNewsire: "As plans progress towards groundbreaking, Plymouth Rock Studios and The Rock Educational Cooperative have hired 24 college interns as part of the larger initiative to help prepare a workforce for the studios' opening. Hailing from local and national public and private institutions, the students in the 2009 summer program were selected from a field of over 2,000 applicants." In fact, Alex Puatu, Chief Technology Officer for Plymouth Rock Studios is briefing the new interns in this episode of The Series.
Stay tuned for further updates and if you missed some of my other posts, you can find them here:
Hollywood East - Still Waiting for State Infrastructure Approval
Hollywood East - Dream is Getting Closer to Reality
Hollywood East - Hosting Acting Forum April 1st
Hollywood East - Plymouth MA - Estimated Timeline
Plymouth Rock Studios Forms Another Alliance
Hollywood East The Road to Plymouth Rock Studios
Hollywood East - Feel The Action
Hooray for Hollywood - East
Hollywood East in Plymouth MA
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Judy, that will be wonderful. It is a good way to get money flowing, that's for sure. Yahooo! By the way, a movie company came by the farm and took pictures, they may be interested in filming a horror movie up there, LOL. Chick thought it was really funny. If they choose his place they will use the house and barn. I hope they do, because it will be just what he needs to boost his spirits when he is recooperating.