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“Hollywood East” Lands

by Paul Bass | April 15, 2008 1:03 PM
Posted to General News

They set out to launch a new sci-fi TV station. Now some New Haven investors have landed on larger terrain: a planned 78-acre digital media planet.

The investors have won a federal auction to purchase the waterfront land where the Stratford Army Engine Plant was closed 12 years ago.

The group — a limited liability corporation called “Hollywood East/Area 51” — is paying $9.612 million to buy the property next to Sikorsky Memorial Airport. After an environmental clean-up, “the largest independent digital motion picture studio complex in North America” will rise there, declared Allen Christopher (pictured), the moving force behind the project.

Click here to continue reading Paul’s report.

Comments (1)

Posted by: oldswed | April 15, 2008 1:45 PM

Isn't putting sound stages directly across the street from an active airport kind of a bad idea?
oldswede

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