Two city councilors think it's time to build a movie studio in Boston
By adamg - 10/23/09 - 8:12 am
City Councilors Steve Murphy (at large) and Bill Linehan (South Boston, South End), plan a hearing to explore how to build a movie studio in Boston. Local movie production companies, the Mass. Convention Center, the Mayor's Film Bureau and the state Film Office would also be asked to participate.
A private company is currently building a movie and TV production complex in Plymouth.
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Great!
Great, Steve, we'll put it down the street from you in West Roxbury.
Hyde Park, you mean
And there is an absolutely great site for it there: The old Stop & Shop warehouse off Neponset Valley Parkway, where a developer failed to convince Dedham to let Boston annex its side of the parcel to build a huge housing development, so now you've got this huge warehouse and tons of land just sitting there, mostly vacant.
What about the Southie Project?
I thought that the developer of the MacAllen Bldg/Court Sq Press Bldg/new bldg with Franklin Southie.... (I think Pappas is his name?) was trying to build a studio somewhere in South Boston. Wonder what happened with that plan? Maybe Linehan is working to get that project approved?
A blog post from Scott Van Voorhis from Aug 2008 about it:
http://www.mafilm.org/2008/08/07/developer-wants-to-build-south-boston-soundstage/