PITTSBURGH — The final season of “Mayor of Kingstown” is expected to have quite the impact on the Pennsylvania economy.

Granted nearly $28 million in tax credits from the Pennsylvania Film Office, according to a Feb. 11 release from the Department of Community and Economic Development, Season 5 of the series is estimated by the state to create more than 1,700 jobs and inject $107 million into the economy.

Expected to begin filming its final, eight-episode season come March, the crime drama follows the powerful McLusky family as they work to keep the peace in a fictional Michigan town run by the prison industry. Season 5 marks the end of the mostly Pittsburgh-filmed show.

“It’s bittersweet, right?” Pittsburgh Film Office executive director Dawn Keezer said. “We enjoyed that production being here. It’s been a great experience working with both [101 Studios] and Paramount, and we hope we get to work with them again in the future.

“All good things come to an end, right?”

“Mayor of Kingstown” also received tax credits for Seasons 2-4, which were filmed in Allegheny County. King Street Productions Inc. — the company that applied to the Pennsylvania Film Production Tax Credit Program for the show — received a 25-30% tax credit based on its direct expenditures during each season’s production. Almost $31 million was granted to Season 4, which completed production in the summer of 2025.

“They’ve done a great job utilizing everything that’s here,” Keezer said of the show using Pittsburgh’s surrounding areas as its backdrop. “They truly make you think you’re in Kingstown, right?”

Hopefully, Keezer said, the crime drama’s success will attract other shows to the region.

In addition to “Mayor of Kingstown,” the Pennsylvania Film Office allocated roughly $6 million to Season 3 of the Netflix series “Tires,” for filming in Philadelphia.

Meant to lure film, TV and commercials to Pennsylvania, the tax credit program is available to productions spending at least 60% of their total budgets in the state. Since 2023, 135 films — which have created an estimated $1.34 billion in direct spending, nearly 40,000 jobs and around $505 million in Pennsylvania resident wages — have been approved for credits through the program, according to the Feb. 11 release.

“The continued success of ‘Tires’ and the final season for 'Mayor of Kingstown' highlights the confidence producers have in filming here and underscores the lasting economic impact these projects bring to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and communities across the commonwealth,” Anthony Pesi, Pennsylvania film commissioner, said in the release.

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