It looks like an entertainment company is set to purchase the Philip Morris site. Unfortunately, I've never heard of them or anything they've produced. Apparently it is a movie production studio and music studio combo and from what I can tell the owner is one in the same. It could bring up to 2,500 jobs to the area though which is obviously a good thing.
Here's a newspaper article regarding the news: http://www2.independ...site-ar-501061/
Here are links to the companies:
Elevating Entertainment Motion Pictures
http://elevatingente...t.com/index.htm
Lamon Records
http://lamonrecords.com/index.html
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Concord in the midst of major changes?
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, Jun 26 2007 06:53 AM
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Posted 02 November 2010 - 06:14 AM
^^After reading the linked websites as well as reviewing what I could find as far as mentions of their two existing productions, I'm thinking this one is more hot air than substance.
To be clear, I'm loving the idea of movie/music production studios in that location and I think it is certainly is something worth pursuing, but I would be really surprised if this moved forward as proposed.
To be clear, I'm loving the idea of movie/music production studios in that location and I think it is certainly is something worth pursuing, but I would be really surprised if this moved forward as proposed.
Edited by Urbanity, 02 November 2010 - 07:37 AM.
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Posted 05 November 2010 - 04:39 AM
Apparently the movie/music/tv studios are just one part of the plan:
A Georgia entertainment company has ambitious plans for the shuttered Philip Morris USA plant in Concord, with hopes of transforming the old cigarette factory into a campus with a movie production studio, a water park, restaurants and an electric-car manufacturer.
While this addresses my initial skepticism about Elevating Entertainment being responsible for the whole project (which is what the other article implied) I agree with the one commissioner's concern about the lack of details:
Commissioner Grace Mynatt said parts of the plan as she's heard it "seem very vague." Mynatt said she had "a big question mark" about the plans to manufacture electric cars, because "you don't just all of a sudden start building electric cars."
I do think a mixed use project is a good idea though and would like to see the restaurants, and movie.music.tv production facilities move forward.
Read more: http://www.charlotte...l#ixzz14OmYaJ62
A Georgia entertainment company has ambitious plans for the shuttered Philip Morris USA plant in Concord, with hopes of transforming the old cigarette factory into a campus with a movie production studio, a water park, restaurants and an electric-car manufacturer.
While this addresses my initial skepticism about Elevating Entertainment being responsible for the whole project (which is what the other article implied) I agree with the one commissioner's concern about the lack of details:
Commissioner Grace Mynatt said parts of the plan as she's heard it "seem very vague." Mynatt said she had "a big question mark" about the plans to manufacture electric cars, because "you don't just all of a sudden start building electric cars."
I do think a mixed use project is a good idea though and would like to see the restaurants, and movie.music.tv production facilities move forward.
Read more: http://www.charlotte...l#ixzz14OmYaJ62
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Posted 11 November 2010 - 12:07 PM
I can almost see Phillip Morris from my home and it is a sad sight to see the loss of 2500 jobs in a town Concords size. Companies love to make big announcements promising jobs and glitter and then threaten to back out unless the county or state agree to all but pay them to set up shop. So I hate to be debbie downer but I have big doubts about this one.
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