Moar Chrysalis…

Here’s another neat update by the people making Chrysalis, a new zombie film that’s being shot in Chicagoland. It was explained to me that it’s great to be a zombie filmmaker in Chicago because Gary is just a half hour away.  One person’s underinvested, neglected neighborhood can be another’s zombie apocalypse wasteland.  (See my previous postContinue reading “Moar Chrysalis…”

Where zombies and urban renewal collide

What to do with all the derelict buildings and brownfields in America’s shrinking Rust Belt cities?  One entrepreneur wants to create a “zombie themed experience park” in a dilapidated section of Detroit.  Here’s more information about the project. As someone who has worked in community development, I think this is an interesting option. Certainly, it would meanContinue reading “Where zombies and urban renewal collide”