Preview: Las Vegas: Hollywood: Colleague Jeff Bliss reports that Warner Brothers is looking to move its headquarters to Clark County to team up with UNLV for Hollywood 2.0 -- film school, production facilities. More later.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel. |
| 0:02.7 | Colleague Jeff Bliss reports, |
| 0:04.7 | the Bliss report on Vegas is that Warner Brothers is looking to move its headquarters to Clark County, |
| 0:12.4 | that's Las Vegas, at a site now run by the University of Las Vegas, |
| 0:20.1 | a film school, production facilities. |
| 0:23.5 | Jeff calls it Hollywood 2.0. More to come. |
| 0:27.9 | Hollywood, Las Vegas, sports teams, Formula One Racing, |
| 0:35.2 | baseball stadium soon enough. |
| 0:38.5 | And as of this telling, no downside. |
| 0:43.0 | Here's Jeff to explain. |
| 0:44.5 | They're going to go to a 34-acre media production multi-use facility that UNLV, University |
| 0:49.7 | Nevada, Las Vegas has. |
| 0:52.0 | It's in southwest Las Vegas. |
| 0:53.6 | Now, Warner's is going to get a tax incentive |
| 0:56.4 | to come there. They're going to invest about $8.5 million. They'll work with UNLV. The university |
| 1:02.0 | will become a bigger, more important kind of film school with students there and the professors |
| 1:06.2 | are very excited. And Vegas is very excited because now that's you know live entertainment and sports |
| 1:12.5 | entertainment capital the world that they're trying to be will could also turn into a filmmaking |
| 1:17.1 | capital so it really rounds out that whole effort they're trying to make as they try to build |
| 1:22.5 | the city up moving from you know just over two million to more than three million people this |
| 1:27.0 | is going to be a ton of jobs and money to the area |
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