Gateway Film Center
1550 N. High Street,
Columbus,
OH
43202
1550 N. High Street,
Columbus,
OH
43202
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Seven screens, opened in November 2005. Owned by Campus Partners development group. Previously managed by Drexel Theatres Group. As of March 1, 2008, managed by Landmark Theatres.
In late-2009, it was taken over by an independent operator and renamed Gateway Film Center.
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Name changed to LANDMARK’S GATEWAY on 3/1/08. No immediate change in programming.
So the name is Landmark’s Gateway and the architect is David K. Mesbur, correct?
Landmark’s, with an apostrophe-s? I don’t think they advertise their other theatres this way.
Display ad in the Dispatch, which started running on Saturday, March 1, 2008, does show the apostrophe: “Landmark’s Gateway Theater”. I am not familiar with the architect, but whoever it was had to design in a very odd space (all rooms are very high and steep).
I believe there are actually only 7 full screens and one “multi-purpose room”.
Joe Vogel already posted the architects name back in Nov 20, 2007.
Effective January, 2010, the theatre will be known as the Gateway Film Center, and will be managed by the property owner, Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment. The president of this facillity will be Chris Hamel, who has worked for Cinemark, Columbus Association for the Performing Arts and the local Drexel Theatre Group.
2 of the screens will be programmed by the staff of the Wexner Center for the Arts, a facility on the Ohio State Campus about ½ mile north of the Gateway complex. They have a very successful cinema program and this will give them the ability to run features longer than a day or two.
What happened to Landmark?
Here’s an article from the Columbus paper: it does not say so but does not deny either that the theater was losing money; my guess is that Landmark refused to renew the lease. Landmark has been trimming its operations of late, turning over control of its operation in New Orleans to another chain just recently.
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As of 1/10, it is officially knows as the Gateway Film Center. Their website is http://www.gatewayfilmcenter.com
This theatre now has 8 screens. A multi-purpose room has now been converted to a small screening room with 22 seats. The screen is large and the chairs comfortable. However, the digital projector is open in the back of the room and the fan is extremely noisy during the movie. They currently have no plans to enclose the projector.