[CPEO-BIF] Raleigh Michigan Studios project, Pontiac, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Officials hope former truck factory helps make Michigan a movie star

By Great Lakes Echo  (MI)
December 28, 2010

When the General Motors Pontiac Assembly Center opened in 1972 to build 
medium-duty trucks, there was no way to predict the diverse subsequent 
uses of the 130-acre site. The site's function has changed in a number 
of ways, but perhaps the most exciting transformation is the current 
construction of the new Raleigh Michigan Studios in Pontiac.

Ground broke last July on what was first named Motown Motion Pictures. 
Linden Nelson, the chief executive officer of the project, changed the 
name last year to align the studio more closely with film and with 
Raleigh's international reputation. The partners are John Ratolka Jr., 
Walbridge Aldinger, A. Alfred Tauben's Tauben Group and William Morris 
Endeavor's Ari Emanuel. They have said that Michigan's 42 percent tax 
break for film production is "the best in the country right now."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/12/officials_hope_former_truck_fa.html


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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