Palace on the Plaza 14
500 Nichols Road,
Kansas City,
MO
64112
500 Nichols Road,
Kansas City,
MO
64112
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Located in the Plaza in Kansas City. Cinemark opened the Palace 14 in 1999 seating 2800. The Palace 14 replaced the shuttered Plaza Theatre two blocks away. The theatre is equivilant to a three story building and takes up an entire city block. The exterior is beautiful with a spanish motif that blends with the other buildings in the Plaza. A really nice but small two sided marquee with a vertical that says PALACE at the front of the marquee.
It has a huge open lobby with chandeliers from the third floor ceiling. You reach the ticket counters as soon as you walk into the lobby and then a central concession stand in the middle. There are escalators on both sides of the lobby to take you to the upper level auditoriums. There are two satelite concessions stands on the upper level. The entire motif of the theatre is of Spanish style. Well lighted and very colorful. THX auditoriums, stadium seting, spacious aisles and Dolby in all auditoriums.
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Even though it has Palace on the Plaza 14 in its name, it actually has 15 screens, because the VIP room issn’t counted in the 14.
While the theaters are impressive, they do not “take up an entire city block.” There are stores and a McDonald’s on the lower level. The southeast corner is taken up by the Brio Tuscan Grill restaurant. Also, several (five?) of the biggest auditoriums are located across a skybridge to an adjoining building (built over a parking garage). Truly one of the better multiplexes anywhere. This building was once a Sears.
Grand opening: May 7, 1999. 1999 Cinemark press release.
Here is a photo of the Palace on the Plaza.
Chain is Cinemark.
The entire place, from the carpet to the walls could use a good scrubbing. And don’t get me started on the bathrooms. But it’s a block away from my apartment so naturally I will patronize the venue. Comfortable seats and good sized screens in the larger auditoriums. But the management really needs to pay more attention to the property and spiff up the place a bit. I’m surprised Highland Properties which manages the Plaza shopping district, hasn’t come down on Cinemark. Warren Theatres in Wichita is a really good chain. I wish Warren would come in and take over the Palace Cinemark.
This is a 2009 close-up photo.
I would agree with getting the Warren Theater Co. into the Palace and maybe even a few other theaters. They would fit right in with our wonderful local theater owners of the Eastland Theaters and the Fine Arts Theaters. The closest thing we have to a Warran Theater is the beautiful AMC Mainstreet which is a retored old movie palace. The outside of the building is one of the most beutiful in the entire city. Thanks AMC.
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great theater, we take the kids down there alot….cheap prices on the weekends during the day. Noodles is now down below where the McDonalds used to be.