Film-shoot revenues up in Montrose

Film shoot revenues up in Montrose Image

The Montrose Shopping Park Assn. has already made about 80% of the roughly $20,000 it expected to reap from filming revenues in 2012, Executive Director Dale Dawson said at a Thursday board meeting.Last year, the shopping park expected to make $30,000 from production companies filming along the quaint shopping street on Honolulu Avenue, but final film revenues came $10,000 short. That prompted the association to lower this year’s estimate. In 2010, the shopping park made about $33,000 from filming, according to treasury records.“Filming production provides quite a bit of essentials that assessments can’t do,” Dawson said, comparing the film revenues to the fees all shopping park members pay as part of a city-regulated business-improvement district.The shopping park is paid between $1,500 and $3,000 for film shoots, depending on their impact, according to the group’s 2005 film guidelines. Recently, NBC’s “Awake” and HBO’s “True Blood” have filmed in Montrose.RELATED:

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Film-shoot revenues up in Montrose