“This case is important, but it is not a difficult case,” US District Judge John Blakey said in making his ruling to dismiss it.
The center will also provide space for collaborations with Obama’s famous friends, including “a studio where I can invite Spike Lee or Stephen Spielberg to come and do workshops on how to make films around the stories that young activists are working on,” the former President said in May 2017.
Obama at the time also promised a music recording studio where, he said, he could “invite Chance (the Rapper) or Bruce Springsteen, depending on your taste, to come here and talk about how you can record music that has social commentary and meaning.”
He estimated that the center itself will create 200 to 300 jobs, citing studies that show it will ultimately generate “1,400 to 1,500 (jobs) in the construction phase and another 2,000 in the overall economic development of the area.”
Source : CNN
