The Man of Steel will be coming back to Ladner.
Delta council, at its Dec. 6th meeting, agreed that it has no objection to an application for a non-farm use at 3010 River Road West to continue filming the TV series Superman & Lois.
The temporary use application must receive final approval from the Agricultural Land Commission.
The farm is the set for Clark Kent’s childhood home in the fictional town of Smallville.
It’s located east of Brunswick Point and is within the Agricultural Land Reserve.
A previous application was made by the Montgomery family who lease the land from the provincial government, which owns the site.
The ALC couldn’t proceed without authorization from the Ministry of Forest, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development.
Rather than amend the previous application, the ministry opted to submit a separate application to the city for the same temporary filming proposal.
A film permit was already granted and filming has taken place.
Meanwhile, the Motion Picture Association – Canada this week released new data by Oxford Economics which found the economic impact of the Warner Bros. Television’s DC drama series Superman & Lois in B.C. was over $95 million spent in-province on the first season alone.
According to the analysis, 58 per cent of total in-province spending supported wages and salaries for local production crew and other labour, with the remaining 42 per cent spent on local goods and services from over 1,280 B.C.-based businesses.
Oxford Economics estimates just one season of production stimulated a total of 1,220 jobs in B.C., including 630 direct jobs created on the show.
The series is estimated to have contributed approximately $137 million to the provincial GDP in 2020-21.
The second season of Superman & Lois is set to premiere on Jan. 11 on The CW Network.
