First, here's what I know about the business model Moore wants to replicate. In Traverse City, an attractive town near the northern tip of Michigan's lower peninsula, Moore and his people have built a small cinematic shrine comprising an extremely selective annual film festival and a restored cinema called the State Theater, which shows art movies year-round (current attraction: "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"). Moore's economic experiment centers on the theater, which is run as a nonprofit and staffed largely by volunteers. Moore has offered to share this business model, and to provide seed money and training, for folks who want to emulate the Traverse City formula in their markets
8 posted on 06/05/2013 3:45:57 PM PDT by cripplecreek
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