 The partnership was described as "a fusion between technology and the arts" that the studio and Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe will come to define Hollywood East as a movement.However, before groundbreaking could begin as planned in late 2009, the state of Massachusetts denied Plymouth Rock's request for $50 million in state funding that would have been used to pay for road and sewer work.Around this same time, the project's co-founders missed the deadline to purchase the Waverly Oaks golf course that occupied the land targeted for studio construction.