Warner Bros studios are interested in buying the FoMoCo. Wixom, Mich. plant to gut out and turn into a major studio here? Preliminary negotiations are under way with Ford, as we speak. This could become the Hollywood of the midwest! Hundreds of movie scripts are being sent here for approval to film.
Apparently major studios are interested in Michigan because of low tax breaks being offered to them. Clint Eastwood is currently filming here, and over the week-end at the 'Woodward Dream Cruise," scouts were checking out the variety of of classic cars of all types and offering some car owners $1,000 a day for rentals.
Well that would be on way to replace some of the income lost to the area due to the lag in the automotive sector. Job diversity never hurts when ecomamies get shakey
tipaly81: That would a good boost in the economy. You couldn't ship those jobs over seas really. Hope that works out for you all. Besides, who needs more cars?
to think I used to work there and even today, I live just around the corner, literally. If it happens it should be very interesting and you're right it would boost our ecomomy here... right now, no one makes enough here to pay attention.
wixomwizard: to think I used to work there and even today, I live just around the corner, literally. If it happens it should be very interesting and you're right it would boost our ecomomy here... right now, no one makes enough here to pay attention.
Ypppp...it seems to me you did...worked there, I mean ...
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Apparently major studios are interested in Michigan because of low tax breaks being offered to them. Clint Eastwood is currently filming here, and over the week-end at the 'Woodward Dream Cruise," scouts were checking out the variety of of classic cars of all types and offering some car owners $1,000 a day for rentals.