The city of Caseville has been given permission to close its account on a nearly $1 million government grant to build a movie-making studio.
The Huron Daily Tribune reports that Michigan Economic Development Corp. wrote a letter to the city in January saying it had completed the necessary steps to close the account.
In 2009, local filmmaker Robert Brown began pushing his idea to build a post-production sound studio called Charity Island Pictures. City officials signed a document in 2010 that secured $935,000 of taxpayer money to build a studio.
Brown was supposed to contribute $125,000 in "machinery and equipment" and create 15 full-time jobs. But that never happened.
A judge found in 2015 that Brown violated his agreement with Caseville and ordered him to vacate the studio.
