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That’s about the only rational explanation for why any city or state official would pursue filmmakers. It certainly has no relation to wisely using limited resources culled from taxpayers:

Cleveland is hoping to bring some big names to the city in an all out push to make the Rock and Roll city the Hollywood of the Midwest.

On Wednesday, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and the Cleveland Film Commission announced a new program to lure moviemakers, both big and small, to the northcoast.

“If I had a wish, my wish would be for HBO to green-light John and Anthony Russo’s series because having a television series, a live action television series, filmed in a town is kind of like the Holy Grail,” said the film commission’s Chris Carmody.

The city is now offering major incentives for production companies to come to Cleveland, putting the city in league with other cities such as Austin and Philadelphia.

And…

Dayton is hoping to capture some of the spotlight other parts of the Buckeye State have enjoyed by building an arsenal of possible locations to offer film production companies and by being better prepared to meet their needs for equipment and crews when they do come to town.

It may get some assistance.

Kristen Erwin, executive director of the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Film Commission, will be selling Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky when she goes to Los Angles in April to pitch locations for feature films.

But she’ll also have Dayton and eastern Indiana in mind.

That’s a relief.

[James Stotter, "Why Economic Development Efforts Often Fail," The Buckeye Institute, 13 July 2005.
Samuel R. Staley, Ph.D., "Cutting Taxes Best Way Out Of Business Incentive Game," The Buckeye Institute, 1 February 1996.]

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