City considering turning Civic Center into sound stage
The 18-acre Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center Complex could become a Hollywood style soundstage, improved or redeveloped.
City of Atlanta officials announced Thursday that they are exploring current and future options for the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center, located just south of Midtown at 395 Piedmont Avenue. For 12 of the last 15 years, the Civic Center has sustained itself, without taxpayers dollars, by booking entertainers and hosting major exhibitions and movie and television productions. For several years, Grady High School has staged its graduation ceremonies in the Civic Center's 4,600-seat theater. Over the past two years, the Civic Center has been the location for 15 major productions including the pilot episode of The Walking Dead, Flight, Joyful Noise, The Three Stooges and Scary Movie Five. Freemantle Media’s Family Feud has produced 360…
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9:31 am on Monday, December 10, 2012
SaportaReport Managing Editor David Pendered takes a look at proposals for the Atlanta Civic Center, plus writes that “the city-backed Screen Gems development at the Lakewood Fairgrounds is eliciting some negative comments from the Atlanta City Council.” http://saportareport.com/blog/2012/12/atlantas-buttermilk-bottoms-area-razed-for-civic-center-could-go-hollywood/ more ›