frankcleveland

Maybe they could extend their life a bit longer by cutting back on actual news and feature more community news or focus on the businesses and personalities within the city and continue to use ads to offset the cost. But as you said, the switch to online alternatives, like all change, is inevitable

Thanks for the article Nice to see ( beyond the people already continuing the efforts to keep us on the map Williams is taking a big leap forward hopefully

For a while we had some big films being filmed here ( the first Avengers movie as an example) but now it seems like there's no longer any news of Hollywood making anything. And arguably it might be too late since the state of Georgia has grown into a "Goto" hub for film making. I thought once the IX center went up for sale someone would turn it into a studio but that didn't happen. I mean if nothing else we could use the talent we already HAVE in the area and do a few small-scale projects (both films and TV pilots) and see if we get a nibble from some of the many streamers out there like HBO and such. Or we might consider starting out own streamer (and then after we are up and running lease our projects to the other streamers) We all know we have enough talent (film crews and actors) and we have plenty of resources (wood/clothing/etc) and we certainly have a variety of locations much of which are just half an hour from each other. I think the only negative thing we need to work on is a lack of hotel space as well as cluster of buildings we can repurpose into film studios. Or is this just not do-able either because of apathy or politics or its just flat out too late because Georgia got there first. I don't know all the ins and outs of the Cleveland elite and the political power structure but i think there's a good opportunity to have a film industry grow here that would benefit not only the local creative community but also provide taxes to the city. So, I'm a big film fan and curious why our film community has grown stagnant. And if it isn't stagnant I'm sorry but my only source of news is what I see from the local news on new Hollywood film projects. And yes, the Public Square area is great but it would be nice to see a film community grow ( larger than it is)