38 Studios, Schilling ask Rhode Island for more money; state officials freeze

Today’s emergency meeting by Rhode Island officials to determine what they are going to do about Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios has concluded with officials freezing like deer in headlights. Nothing happened.

Rhode Island’s Economic Development Corporation will take no immediate action to aid the developer, following a closed-door meeting attended by Governor Lincoln Chafee and Schilling, who asked for additional help to save the company. Schilling refused to answer press inquiries and officials wouldn’t declare how much money the studio is seeking.

“How do we avoid throwing good money after bad?” Chafee is quoted by the Associated Press as saying after the three-hour emergency meeting finished.

“The company still has the option to cure the existing default by paying the $1,125,000 guaranty fee that is past due,” reads an official statement by the EDC board. “In the meantime, we will continue to talk with 38 Studios and develop additional information, and will resume the Board meeting at our regularly scheduled meeting on May 21. The members of the Board may not discuss the confidential information received and discussed today.”

If the studio doesn’t receive assistance, it appears Rhode Island taxpayers may very well be on the hook for the $75 million 38 Studios loan that, after interest, would require paying back $112.6 million through 2020.Continue reading 38 Studios, Schilling ask Rhode Island for more money; state officials freeze38 Studios, Schilling ask Rhode Island for more money; state officials freeze originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 16 May 2012 14:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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