Marquee Cinemas-Consumer Square 14
6530 Tussing Road,
Reynoldsburg,
OH
43068
6530 Tussing Road,
Reynoldsburg,
OH
43068
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Closed on October 10th, 2001 due to bankruptcy of Regal. Article posted. Many of its 1997-2000 builds were in poor locations.
Why did Regal close it in 2 years?
This opened as Regal Consumer Square 14 on August 27th, 1999. grand opening ad posted.
Google Street View as of December 2015 shows absolutely nothing has been done with this entire property.
Aerial photo of the building under Marquee management uploaded in the photo section for this cinema.
Thanks for all the suggestions – it’s definitely helpful!
Directly north of the Eastland Mall was AMC Eastland Plaza 6, a simple multiplex with 3 theatres on each side of the lobby.
Across the street from this was Eastland Centre 8. This was a very different floorplan from the other AMC’s in town, and I was told it was not very efficient.
Also, on East Livingston Ave near Reynoldsburg was the York Plaza Cinema, originally built as a Jerry Lewis cinema. That one is also listed here.
There were a couple of AMC multiplexes on either side of Hamilton Road just north of Eastland Mall, which don’t have pages on CinemaTreasures. The old cinema in the mall does have a page here.
The Forum was on the south side of Refugee Road just east of the mall, but it had only 3 screens.
On East Main Street in Whitehall there were a Town & Country Cinema (General Cinemas) and Cinema East (local independent). Click on ‘Ohio’ near the top of this page, view all, sort by city, and then look at Columbus and Whitehall (and Bexley) theatres.
Ron – you get around as much as I do – I never knew you lived in the Columbus area before you were in Boston. So did I – Small world, eh? :–)
I’m probably on the wrong page again, as I usually am, but I’m working on columns for my website about my years of theater attending, and I need to know about a couple on the east side of Columbus. First up, what multiplex was directly or possibly diagonally across the street from Eastland? I seem to remember it having at least six screens, although I could be wrong – I was in it only once, having travelled up from Lancaster to see “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”. I caught a bear of a cold because it was the middle of December and they had the air conditioning on; it was freezing in that place.
We also went to a couple of theaters in the Reynoldsburg/Whitehall area with my aunt and her family in the early 80s. I’m not even sure if they were the same theater. I remember seeing the films “Stripes”, “Risky Business” and “Neighbors” in this/these theaters. I don’t even know what the road was – I lived in Newark and later Lancaster, and didn’t travel to Columbus very often. But I seem to remember seeing all three movies in a single screen theater, or maybe a twin. For some reason the name “Town and Country” sticks out to me, but it’s been almost 20 years since I left the area, so I’m not at all sure.
So if anyone out there can help me out, I’d appreciate it!
Thank you. What is being built where the theatre and shopping center were?
Demolished. The theater was the first to go, then the entire Consumer Square plaza. The theater was only open for a few years, closed, opened again under another name, closed again and demolished soon after. Traffic congestion and poor city planning is to blame for the death of this area.
Can someone confirm whether this theatre was demolished or whether it is still standing empty?
The Consumer Square mall was demolished last fall.
The Dispatch article I linked to says “In one case, a movie theater was built near Consumer Square, only to be demolished within a few years.” Does that sentence refer to this theatre? Was it demolished along with the mall, or before the mall?
Is there anymore information on the Reynoldsburg Cinema Consumer Square 14? Is it for lease or sale? Is there a number that I can call to get anymore information? Any help would be great. Thanks
I’ve added a page for the Main Theatre to CinemaTreasures. Feel free to add any further comments there.
The theatre a few blocks east of the Main was the Eastern, not Eastside. It was a very nice place in its day. I remember some type of statuary located down near the screen.
This one, at 1336 East Main Street? (Larger photo here).
This was once the Main Theatre. It closed a long time ago as a cinema, though it may have had a second life as a nightclub or live stage. I know that it was no longer a movie theatre when I moved to Columbus in 1968. The neighborhood has been quite depressed for many years.
Yes, I should add it to CinemaTreasures, though I don’t know much more about it. There was another closed theatre a few blocks away on Main, called the Eastside. I’m pretty sure it’s gone now.
I was in Columbus yesterday (9/23) and saw the building…very sad that a 14-plex in a part of town that is pretty much under-represented by movie theaters can fail under two different owners. South of I-70 there are few movie theaters in the Columbus area-the only ones I know of on the south side is the drive-in and the Georgesville Road megaplex.
Also, there is an ex-movie theatre building on East Main Street, that now houses a medical clinic, that I am curious about. I saw no pictures of this theatre on the Columbus Library website, but this theatre’s marquee, which looks art-deco, appears to be for the most part intact. I was wondering what the name of this theatre was, and when it closed as a movie theatre. The building now houses the “East Main Med Center”. Maybe Ron or someone else would know…it does look like an impressive building, and I could imagine what it looked like when it was a theatre.
OK, but when I was a student at Eastmoor High School (1972-75), I could walk to the Esquire (later Carousel East) or bicycle to Town & Country or Cinema East. The places you mention are much too far for either walking or biking.
I teach at Eastmoor Academy (High School) and most of our students go to Easton or the 16-screen Cinemark in Gahanna. It is easy to get to Easton from the east side, either using 670, 270 or right up James/Steltzer road.
But people haven’t moved out of Berwick, Bexley, Eastmoor, Whitehall, and the Walnut Ridge area. That’s a very large area to leave without movie theatres.
Cinema City was put up by the same dollar chain that built a place just south of Westerville. I think it was called SuperSaver. Super Saver had cheap admission, but some of the highest concession prices around.
Most development in the Columbus area is moving north. East side until you get to Reynoldsburg/Pickerington is pretty dead.
The only movie theatre that is still in business near Eastland Mall is the Cinema City off of Brice Road, which is a discount subrun theatre ($1.50 admission)…this is in a small, dead mall off both Brice Road and I-70, just north of Eastland. I think Cinema City has 6 screens, and the interior of the theatre has a lot of neon and chrome…I feel like I’m on the set of a sci-fi movie when I’m in that theatre.
With this closed, are there any movie theatres at all remaining on the East side of Columbus, besides the Drexel in Bexley?
Cinema East, Town & Country, Carousel East, York Plaza, and a whole bunch of theatres surrounding the Eastland Mall are all gone, and I can’t think of anything that has replaced them.