$63.5 million Deep South Studios proposed for New Orleans Metro

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A movie producer with experience in Hollywood and the booming "Hollywood South" scene in Louisiana hopes to build a $63.5 million movie production campus in Algiers near the Crescent City Connection.

Scott Niemeyer of Gold Circle Films said Deep South Studios would be located on nearly 19 acres of land and offer five sound stages, two production buildings and other space for a total 262,000-square-foot facility. It would be the largest in the region with the nearest similarly sized studios in Atlanta and Albuquerque.

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Niemeyer left Algiers in the 1980s for the West Coast after school. But he recently returned home, buying a condo in the Warehouse District, after the state's film production tax incentive program set off a boom in Louisiana-based production activity, dubbed "Hollywood South." Among other work, he produced the campus musical "Pitch Perfect" and its in-progress sequel, both in Baton Rouge.

He is an officer in the Louisiana Film & Entertainment Association and has been a vocal supporter of state film tax incentives.

Niemeyer said he intends on raising $49.5 million in foreign investment for the project through a federal program granting visas to immigrants who invest in new commercial enterprises in the U.S., known as the "EB-5" program.

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