SHORT TAKES : Oregon Panel OKs Film Studio

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon’s Public Lands Advisory Committee has endorsed a proposal to build a film studio in Wilsonville.

The panel voted 4 to 0 Monday to recommend that the state Department of General Services begin negotiations with Gloria Monty Productions of Los Angeles for purchase of the state-owned Callahan Center. The production company was one of two parties interested in buying the vacant former rehabilitation center for injured workers. Sierra Pacific Development Co. of Lake Oswego sought to build a golf course and a Japanese college on the site.

Robert O’Byrne, husband of producer Gloria Monty, attended the committee meeting. He said he and his wife hope to begin producing television programs at the Wilsonville site in two to three months.