Allen Park comes through with $146M film studio
Hollywood isn’t coming to Allen Park any more. Allen Park is becoming Hollywood after it announced plans for a $146 million studio.Unity Studios plans to build a 750,000-square-foot film, TV and media production studio factory and village on 104 acres of land at Southfield Road and Enterprise Drive. All of those numbers add up to about 3,000 union jobs.Veteran Hollywood film executive and native Southfield resident Jimmy Lifton will serve as president. Lifton has a long resume padded by 30 years in the entertainment business. During that time he owned a record label, produced 13 feature films, and became principal of one of the largest independent post-production audio studios in Los Angeles, Oracle Post, which services the likes of HBO, NBC, Dreamworks and MTV.Lifton wants to turn the Unity Studios into a factory town in the tradition of Henry Ford. There, the Lifton Institute for Media Skills will retrain out-of-work skilled and unskilled labor into film production. There will also be a village where people can live, shop and find entertainment options.Unity Studios will utilize brownfield tax credits to create the facilities. Construction times and other details are set to be released later this spring.Source: City of Allen ParkWriter: Jon Zemke
Hollywood isn’t coming to Allen Park any more. Allen Park is becoming Hollywood after it announced plans for a $146 million studio.
Unity Studios plans to build a 750,000-square-foot film, TV and media production studio factory and village on 104 acres of land at Southfield Road and Enterprise Drive. All of those numbers add up to about 3,000 union jobs.
Veteran Hollywood film executive and native Southfield resident Jimmy Lifton will serve as president. Lifton has a long resume padded by 30 years in the entertainment business. During that time he owned a record label, produced 13 feature films, and became principal of one of the largest independent post-production audio studios in Los Angeles, Oracle Post, which services the likes of HBO, NBC, Dreamworks and MTV.
Lifton wants to turn the Unity Studios into a factory town in the tradition of Henry Ford. There, the Lifton Institute for Media Skills will retrain out-of-work skilled and unskilled labor into film production. There will also be a village where people can live, shop and find entertainment options.
Unity Studios will utilize brownfield tax credits to create the facilities. Construction times and other details are set to be released later this spring.
Source: City of Allen Park
Writer: Jon Zemke
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