New Hope Plantation filming studio dedicating marshland to conservation – Brunswick Information

Colleen Knight, chair of the college’s Division of Pure Sciences, mentioned the school is happy concerning the prospects for college kids.

It’s acquired nice potential for research and analysis of coastal habitats because of the distant location and handy entry, Evans mentioned.

Barber mentioned the land’s use as an outside filming location means leaving it in pristine situation is a promoting level to filming studios except for some upkeep work on an previous plantation home and the grounds, together with clearing underbrush, downed tree limbs and trash left behind by former residents.

A cellular house park as soon as situated nearer to the center of the parcel was moved to the outer edges. Barber is offering new trailers and transferring companies as wanted.

Now, a manicured inexperienced garden stretches from the tree line off U.S. 17 to the marsh with a number of hundred mature stay oaks offering shade to most of it. The upland half accounts for round 100 acres, nevertheless, with the remainder of the roughly 4,000 acres being comprised of marsh and waterways slated for conservation, Barber mentioned.

The precise phrases below which the land can be preserved are nonetheless into consideration by the state Division of Pure Assets and the U.S. Military Corps of Engineers, he mentioned.

A decided developer may get 350-plus residential models out of the upland portion of the property, Barber mentioned, as proven on a plan that was drawn up earlier than he purchased the land.

The property has an extended historical past, he mentioned. Reproduced paperwork exhibiting property and waterway rights of a giant swatch land, together with the current day New Hope property, being deeded by the king to Gen. James Oglethorpe grasp on the wall of an previous plantation home, which Barber hopes to revive.

Michelle Sligh, government director of New Hope Studios, mentioned two productions have made use of the property, “Desecrated Ones” and “Dooba Dooba,” each of that are within the horror style and are nonetheless in manufacturing.

“It’s irritating as a result of I can’t say,, however there’s plenty of corporations who wish to use this space as a filming location,” Barber mentioned.

Getting manufacturing corporations to have a look at the Golden Isles as a filming location means plenty of lobbying in Atlanta and Los Angeles, Sligh mentioned.