Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed wants state tax incentives for television commercial production

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed would like to see Georgia's tax credit for motion picture production extended to television commercials.

Film production is "an industry in which we excel," Reed said at a press conference this week. "We have the resources and the infrastructure in place."

Reed said he envisioned a model in which preliminary work on commercials is done in New York, and then production is done in Atlanta. "I think it’s a good fit" for the city, he said.