Downtown businesses to remain open during ‘Brooklyn’ filming

Macon ..

Tanya modersitzki 41nbc news.

The project will be finished by december, or early january of 20-20.

If you see new businesses in downtown near second and cherry streets... that's actually part of a set ... for a television series.

The hbo series 'brooklyn is filming one of its episodes in downtown macon... starting this weekend.

There will be road closures on second street, cherry street, mulberry street, and cotton avenue... on april 14th through the 19th.

Visit macon's vice president of development says... businesses will remain open.

And the production company is compensating businesses... because they know they may lose some business.

"downtown can be utilized fo not just georgia but it can be chicago it can be new york because of the structure and architecture and the time that it was all built according to an email from macon bibb public affairs... 'brooklyn is