ICE Lawndale 10

Per ICE’s website, this theatre has re-opened! http://icetheaters.com/lawndale10.asp

I’d guess the government largess ended or they fulfilled all the attached terms and obligations.

Lawndale may have bottomed out but there’s no where near the disposable income to sustain a multiplex yet.

There has been enough development on the Near West Side to sustain a 6-10 screen house. Sundance Cinema was looking at a multiplex on Racine couple of years ago.

I remember that as well. I thought it was a good idea at the time, because people everywhere like the movies. But apparently it didn’t work in practice.

I suppose it could have also been mismanagement, as these are the same people who ran Meridian. My understanding is that Meridian went under because they owed a large amusement tax balance that could not be paid.

The status of this place should be “closed.” I believe that the Quarry aka Hodgkins Cinema also looks like this place.

http://www.jlarch.net/projects/the_lawndale.html . I suppose it might have also been a 5-year contract with Marcus, too.

I’ll bet it was a 10-year lease or something.

Yep, the same principals.