Opened with 10 screens and expanded to
14 screens by 2000.
Owners:
1980’s Litchfield
1995 Regal Cinemas
2003 Spotlight Cinemas
2007 Galaxy Funplex Cinemas
2009 Big Cinemas
Aurora Cineplex and The Fringe miniature golf opened to offer family-friendly entertainment at the Roswell Town Center Mall. It replaces the former “Star Time” entertainment complex, that shut down last year.
As developers, both saw the potential in reviving the space on the Roswell Town Center campus once occupied by another entertainment-complex operator. As parents and Roswelians, both recognized the need in Roswell to provide family-friendly entertainment options with a strong emphasis on delivering the highest level of customer-service.
“We have spent more than a year assembling the right team to deliver the right product to ensure that both Aurora Cineplex and The Fringe will be successful,"said Mimms. "Additionally, these entertainment offerings will operate under a ‘family-run’ business structure, a business model we know works well for us. Area 51 is literally in our back yard, and our customers are also our friends and neighbors, so we are especially motivated to deliver on our promise to provide safe, fun, quality entertainment.”
Special group pricing, birthday parties and event options are available at both Aurora Cineplex and The Fringe.
A client in Roswell bought a shopping center in a great location in Roswell with wonderful potential. The site offers terrific discount retailers on a top level, with an underneath level offering a vacated/closed/bankrupt family entertainment center. Once a thriving 10-screen Cinema, with an attached indoor family entertainment center, and an outdoor 36-hole, two course miniature golf attraction. The retail portion of the center was doing well, while the cinema and family entertainment center closed in April 2009.
The result, Phase One of Area 51, which opened in record time on July 31 as a 10-screen, state-of-the-art cinema (The Aurora Cineplex) and a 36-hole golf course (The Fringe.) A record 3,000 attended the opening weekend.
Downtown Atlanta’s only movie theater, located in CNN Center, has closed and will not be reopening.
Turner Broadcasting recently shut down the theater to make way for the media conglomerate’s growth.
At one time, the six-screen theater was known for its continuous showing of “Gone With the Wind.”
“The space is needed for CNN.com expansion,” said Phillip Evans, a spokesman for Turner Broadcasting. He was referring to the company’s rapidly growing online news operation.
Turner Broadcasting owned the cinema but paid United Artists Theaters a management fee to operate it since about 1987.
Tightly packed patrons crowd together in the Lenox Theatre. With barely a seat in the house, some stand in the back to catch a glimpse of the show.
An undated photo, tucked away in a file at Historic Augusta, reveals this lively group.
Maybe they were watching a blues hound wailing on the stage or perhaps just catching an afternoon matinee.
Either way, when this picture was taken, segregation was in full effect.
While other Augusta theaters, such as the Imperial, offered black seating in the back, the Lenox was a place for the city’s blacks to sit front and center to see the latest shows and movies.
But, with integration, came the theater’s gradual end.
Eventually condemned after years of neglect, the city ordered the building torn down in 1978.
The silver screens at Regency Exchange 8 faded to black , as the last remaining movie house in south Augusta rolled the ending credits for the last time.
The General Cinema Corp.-owned theater abruptly closed after 13 years in operation in the troubled Regency Mall complex.
“I didn’t know anything about it,” said Red Robbins, manager of the Augusta Exchange Regal 20 Cinema. “I heard it through the movie theater grapevine.”
General Cinema’s public relations director, Brian Callahan, declined to comment specifically on the reasons for the closing, but said the company is closing several locations .
Regal 12 Cinema, Augusta’s only remaining second-run movie theater, will roll its final reel in about two weeks, according to a local security official.
Richmond County Deputy Wendell Johnson, who schedules and works security for the cinema, said the complex is supposed to close near the end of May.
Dick Westerling, a Regal corporate spokesman, did not return phone calls Friday and Monday.
Employees at Regal 12 called talk of the cinema closing “rumors” and refused to comment on the record. The theater has screenings scheduled through Monday.
Regal 12, located in the Augusta West shopping center,
Regal Cinemas plans to open its 20-screen movie theater at the Augusta Exchange shopping center.
It is the next big project to open at the steadily expanding retail center.
The 84,000-square-foot theater will include a cafe, serving gourmet coffees, juices, muffins and ice cream, and a video arcade. Ticket prices have not yet been disclosed.
Regal marketing coordinator Robbie Arrington said that ticket prices should be about the same as they are at Regal 12, the other local theater at the Augusta West Parkway shopping center.
Augusta’s last “dollar theater” has announced it will close after 25 years.
Columbia Theaters, located in the Columbia Square shopping center, will fire up its final screening.
The theater, owned by Georgia Theater Company of Saint Simon’s Island, Ga., is the city’s second second-run movie theater to close in as many weeks. General Cinema Corp.’s Regency Exchange 8, located behind Regency Mall, shut down after 13 years in South Augusta.
The mother of a slain rap music star wants his
legacy as an artist and actor to live on in a big way in Stone Mountain, Ga. and government leaders are hoping that legacy helps spur an economic revival of the Memorial Drive corridor. Afeni Shakur, whose son Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas in 1996, helped dedicate the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts on Memorial Drive near Hambrick Road Aug, 18. The Center helped by what Ms. Shakur said was $10 million of Tupac’s money, is scheduled to include a 500-seat auditorium art gallery, museum chronicling Tupac’s career, recording and dance studios and film editing facilities when it opens in 2003, said Tre'Mayne Maxie, director of the center and a former staffer for U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, of Decatur.“I know working for Ms. McKinney, they ’ve been trying to revitalize Memorial Drive for a long time,” Maxie told a crowd gathered at the center site. “We’re hoping, and we know, the arts center will be a big push for that. "This will help revitalize our community. (The Shakur family) live here. They’re really concerned,” he said. The 20,000-square foot structure formerly housed a septum five-screen movie theatre on a 3.2 acre site at 5616 Memorial Drive.
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2854 Delk Rd
November 10, 1992-2005
Owners:
1992 Storey Theatres
1998 Regal Cinemas
Opened with 10 screens and expanded to
14 screens by 2000.
Owners:
1980’s Litchfield
1995 Regal Cinemas
2003 Spotlight Cinemas
2007 Galaxy Funplex Cinemas
2009 Big Cinemas
Aurora Cineplex and The Fringe miniature golf opened to offer family-friendly entertainment at the Roswell Town Center Mall. It replaces the former “Star Time” entertainment complex, that shut down last year.
Aurora Cineplex is a first-run movie house that features 10 screens (including two digital screens capable of showing 3D movies), digital sound, stadium seating and brand-new, high-back rocker seats. The renovated lobby features large-screen video monitors, striking décor and completely rebuilt restrooms (including brand-new family restrooms).
As developers, both saw the potential in reviving the space on the Roswell Town Center campus once occupied by another entertainment-complex operator. As parents and Roswelians, both recognized the need in Roswell to provide family-friendly entertainment options with a strong emphasis on delivering the highest level of customer-service.
“We have spent more than a year assembling the right team to deliver the right product to ensure that both Aurora Cineplex and The Fringe will be successful,"said Mimms. "Additionally, these entertainment offerings will operate under a ‘family-run’ business structure, a business model we know works well for us. Area 51 is literally in our back yard, and our customers are also our friends and neighbors, so we are especially motivated to deliver on our promise to provide safe, fun, quality entertainment.”
Special group pricing, birthday parties and event options are available at both Aurora Cineplex and The Fringe.
A client in Roswell bought a shopping center in a great location in Roswell with wonderful potential. The site offers terrific discount retailers on a top level, with an underneath level offering a vacated/closed/bankrupt family entertainment center. Once a thriving 10-screen Cinema, with an attached indoor family entertainment center, and an outdoor 36-hole, two course miniature golf attraction. The retail portion of the center was doing well, while the cinema and family entertainment center closed in April 2009.
The result, Phase One of Area 51, which opened in record time on July 31 as a 10-screen, state-of-the-art cinema (The Aurora Cineplex) and a 36-hole golf course (The Fringe.) A record 3,000 attended the opening weekend.
Phase II will include a Café and a number of party rooms, which are always in demand! Phase three will include a family restaurant, comedy club and an activity/game floor.
Downtown Atlanta’s only movie theater, located in CNN Center, has closed and will not be reopening.
Turner Broadcasting recently shut down the theater to make way for the media conglomerate’s growth.
At one time, the six-screen theater was known for its continuous showing of “Gone With the Wind.”
“The space is needed for CNN.com expansion,” said Phillip Evans, a spokesman for Turner Broadcasting. He was referring to the company’s rapidly growing online news operation.
Turner Broadcasting owned the cinema but paid United Artists Theaters a management fee to operate it since about 1987.
Tightly packed patrons crowd together in the Lenox Theatre. With barely a seat in the house, some stand in the back to catch a glimpse of the show.
An undated photo, tucked away in a file at Historic Augusta, reveals this lively group.
Maybe they were watching a blues hound wailing on the stage or perhaps just catching an afternoon matinee.
Either way, when this picture was taken, segregation was in full effect.
While other Augusta theaters, such as the Imperial, offered black seating in the back, the Lenox was a place for the city’s blacks to sit front and center to see the latest shows and movies.
But, with integration, came the theater’s gradual end.
Eventually condemned after years of neglect, the city ordered the building torn down in 1978.
The silver screens at Regency Exchange 8 faded to black , as the last remaining movie house in south Augusta rolled the ending credits for the last time.
The General Cinema Corp.-owned theater abruptly closed after 13 years in operation in the troubled Regency Mall complex.
“I didn’t know anything about it,” said Red Robbins, manager of the Augusta Exchange Regal 20 Cinema. “I heard it through the movie theater grapevine.”
General Cinema’s public relations director, Brian Callahan, declined to comment specifically on the reasons for the closing, but said the company is closing several locations .
Regal 12 Cinema, Augusta’s only remaining second-run movie theater, will roll its final reel in about two weeks, according to a local security official.
Richmond County Deputy Wendell Johnson, who schedules and works security for the cinema, said the complex is supposed to close near the end of May.
Dick Westerling, a Regal corporate spokesman, did not return phone calls Friday and Monday.
Employees at Regal 12 called talk of the cinema closing “rumors” and refused to comment on the record. The theater has screenings scheduled through Monday.
Regal 12, located in the Augusta West shopping center,
Regal Cinemas plans to open its 20-screen movie theater at the Augusta Exchange shopping center.
It is the next big project to open at the steadily expanding retail center.
The 84,000-square-foot theater will include a cafe, serving gourmet coffees, juices, muffins and ice cream, and a video arcade. Ticket prices have not yet been disclosed.
Regal marketing coordinator Robbie Arrington said that ticket prices should be about the same as they are at Regal 12, the other local theater at the Augusta West Parkway shopping center.
Augusta’s last “dollar theater” has announced it will close after 25 years.
Columbia Theaters, located in the Columbia Square shopping center, will fire up its final screening.
The theater, owned by Georgia Theater Company of Saint Simon’s Island, Ga., is the city’s second second-run movie theater to close in as many weeks. General Cinema Corp.’s Regency Exchange 8, located behind Regency Mall, shut down after 13 years in South Augusta.
The mother of a slain rap music star wants his
legacy as an artist and actor to live on in a big way in Stone Mountain, Ga. and government leaders are hoping that legacy helps spur an economic revival of the Memorial Drive corridor. Afeni Shakur, whose son Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas in 1996, helped dedicate the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts on Memorial Drive near Hambrick Road Aug, 18. The Center helped by what Ms. Shakur said was $10 million of Tupac’s money, is scheduled to include a 500-seat auditorium art gallery, museum chronicling Tupac’s career, recording and dance studios and film editing facilities when it opens in 2003, said Tre'Mayne Maxie, director of the center and a former staffer for U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, of Decatur.“I know working for Ms. McKinney, they ’ve been trying to revitalize Memorial Drive for a long time,” Maxie told a crowd gathered at the center site. “We’re hoping, and we know, the arts center will be a big push for that. "This will help revitalize our community. (The Shakur family) live here. They’re really concerned,” he said. The 20,000-square foot structure formerly housed a septum five-screen movie theatre on a 3.2 acre site at 5616 Memorial Drive.