westfaironline.com January 9, 2023
MOVIE STUDIO PROJECTS SHOOT AHEAD IN SW WESTCHESTER BY PETER KATZ Pkatz@westfairinc.com
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s the new year began, efforts were accelerating to make the southwestern section of Westchester a movie and TV studio megaplex. Recent activity included the sale of the property where a new studio campus is planned in Yonkers and a series of meetings on a proposed $100 million studio campus in Hastings-on-
Hudson, the village, which is located just north of Yonkers along the Hudson River. National Resources, based in Greenwich, and Great Point Studios helmed by Robert Halmi, which built the Lionsgate Studios in downtown Yonkers and currently expanding that facility, moved ahead with their plan to develop a new studio facility on the Rising Ground campus at 463 Hawthorne Ave. in Yonkers.
MOVIE STUDIO
Light color buildings shown on left represent new soundstages proposed by Electric Owl Studios.
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Connecticut ‘Clean Slate’ law to erase criminal records BY JUSTIN MCGOWN jmcgown@westfairinc.com
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onnecticut’s new “Clean Slate” law took effect on New Year’s Day and requires the state automatically erase records of certain felonies and misdemeanors and expand the protections granted to job seekers with criminal records. For misdemeanor offenses, the law mandates the automatic erasure of convictions seven
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years after the court entered the judgment. Class E and D felonies will also be erased from public records 10 years after the court entered the date of conviction. In Connecticut Class E Felonies carry penalties of up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $3,500 and class D felonies are for up to five years in prison and a fine up to $5,000. Class D felonies include offenses such as misconduct with a motor vehicle, several non-le-
thal firearms offenses, unlawful possession or sale of gravestones, computer crime to the third degree, criminal mischief, theft of cable television and a wide range of other offenses. Some types of assault and other violent crimes fall in this category. Class E felonies include the use of ransomware to extort money and a number of less serious versions of Class D felonies. However, convictions reg-
‘CLEAN SLATE’ LAW
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