Location scout talks about Michigan’s Hollywood close up

Detroit is known as the Paris of the Midwest, but could Washtenaw County become the Hollywood of the ‘Great Flyover’?Excerpt:Michigan’s subsidy for filmmakers has been a great success, as evidenced by California’s passage earlier this year of its own $500 million tax incentive to retain productions that have been fleeing the Golden State for places like the Great Lakes State.A 42 percent refund for in-state spending is a difficult lure to resist, but Innocence Production Inc.’s George Constas says it’s only a start.Constas is a location scout for the Ann Arbor based production company. He is largely why places like Dexter, Chelsea, Jackson, Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti were included in the roster of locations around mid and eastern Michigan.Read the rest of the story here and the YpsiNews’ April Fools story about the porn industry setting up shop in Ypsilanti here.