Friday, June 19, 2009
Southfield Movie Studio
News broke yesterday that the long anticipated movie studio project at Southfield (the former South Weymouth Navy Base) looks like it is moving forward. This is great news for Weymouth and for Massachusetts. We have often referred to Southfield as the Twilight Zone because of it’s beautiful façade, off of Route 18, that basically leads to nowhere. In the ten years since the Air Station closed there has been “much ado about nothing” there and certainly no revenue generated for the surrounding communities.
Let’s hope this doesn’t turn into another comedy of errors. Representative Ron Mariano is already looking to give the studio tax breaks. Our question is why? Aren’t they coming anyway? And isn’t the whole point to create revenue? How does a tax break create revenue for the Commonwealth?
Hopefully it will be built, they will come, jobs will be created, revenue will be generated and it will help jump-start more projects at Southfield. We could all use a movie story with a happy ending.
POSTED BY STAN at June 19, 2009
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