About Town: Film studio can help city reel in movie projects
Jason Farmer’s BLP Film Studios plans an 85-acre film studio lot at the southwest corner of Elvis Presley Boulevard and Holmes Road in Whitehaven, complete with sound stages, commissary, editing facilities, recording studio, a warehouse for building sets, and a hotel for out-of-town production crews. (Courtesy HBG Design)
Omer Yusuf
Omer Yusuf covers Bartlett and North Memphis neighborhoods for The Daily Memphian. He also analyzes COVID-19 data each week. Omer is a former Jackson Sun reporter and University of Memphis graduate.
If it all comes together the undeveloped intersection of Elvis Presley Boulevard and Holmes Road in Whitehaven could be home to the second-largest Black-owned film studio in the U.S. within a few years.
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