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April
9, 2008 Eastern Shore county plans to lure film industry Kent County, in coordination with the Maryland Film Office, has taken steps to entice production companies to film in the Eastern Shore county, according to Jack Steinmetz, director of the county’s Office of Economic Development. It has compiled a pictorial inventory of high-potential locations. Owners of these properties have signed an agreement that allows access to their sites and a willingness to share them with film industry professionals. Continued ... The county also created an incentive program to save production companies 5 percent of their lodging expenses. A production unit – no matter the size – will be entitled to a rebate of the county’s normal 5 percent lodging tax. Kent
County was recently named “best place to live in rural
America” by Progressive
Farmer magazine.
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