Demolition of Showcase Cinemas in Toledo is imminent

posted by CSWalczak on September 21, 2010 at 10:40 am

TOLEDO, OH — Workers have erected fencing around the Showcase Cinemas in preparation for the theater’s destruction. The theater closed in 2005. Plans to build hotels on the site have been dropped and the property will up for sale when the theater building is razed. It was once a 70mm Cinerama house.

The former theater at 3500 Secor Rd. closed in 2005. Last Spring, several regional hotel owners expressed interest in building on the West Toledo site. Under a site plan, the current structure, built in 1964, was to be demolished to make way for a pair of hotels and a retail strip on the property. That plan was withdrawn months later.

There is more at ToledoOnTheMove.com.

Theaters in this post

• Showcase Cinemas Toledo