AMC Lulah Hills 11
2042 Lawrenceville Highway,
Decatur,
GA
30033
2042 Lawrenceville Highway,
Decatur,
GA
30033
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As of today theatres 1 to 6 are currently open with new AMC Signature Recliners and the other 5 currently closed for upgrades.
Please update address to 2042 Lawrenceville Highway as per AMC Website
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 81
Theatre 2 and 3 71
Theatre 4 124 DOLBY CINEMA at AMC
Theatre 5 116 PRIME at AMC
Theatre 6 116
Theatre 7 thru 11 Closed for renovations
Now known as the AMC Lulah Hills 11.
https://www.amctheatres.com/movie-theatres/atlanta/amc-lulah-hills-11
As of today, this theatre is still currently operating with 11 screens with theatres 12 to 16 still CLOSED. Please update current screens 11 screens
Currently, theatre 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 are currently closed.
This is a no frills AMC location, no PLF experiences or have recliners.
Renamed to AMC North Dekalb 16
Seating capacities at this theater (via Fandango’s reserved seating service):
Theater 1 – 153 seats
Theaters 2, 3, 7, 8 & 9 – 142 seats
Theater 4 – 264 seats
Theaters 5 & 6 – 241 seats
Theater 10 – 129 seats
Theater 11 – 102 seats
Theater 12 – 133 seats
Theater 13 – 294 seats
Theater 14 – 295 seats
Theater 15 – 130 seats
Theater 16 – 177 seats
That is a shame, even though I was from Cobb, I liked N. Dekalb Mall. When I read that Rich’s (oops “Macy’s) was closing down I knew it would be the end eventually, such a shame. I think the worst part of the destruction of Atlanta is that there is never any significant fanfare, it just disappears. When Perimeter closed it was a whimper, not that it was the showplace it once was, but I think a lot of folks would have gone to one last show had we known it was coming. I know everyone I knew in the late 70’s saw at least one midnight movie there regardless of what part of town you were from and had great, if fuzzy, memories of it.
Article in today’s paper reports that the mall owners have decided that the days of enclosed malls are over and that they are going to tear this place, Atlanta’s first enclosed mall, down. In its place will be built yet another “Town” concept development. It will have eating, retail, offices, apartments, and a Costco. It also said that the AMC Theater will remain but did not specify if the current theater would be incorporated into the center or if it would be rebuilt in another part of the development.
If this comes about it means that the original mall (and Storey Theater) lasted 21 years, and the Market Place rebuild with its Cineplex-Odeon 4 / AMC 8 / AMC 16 about 34 more.
This opened on December 13th, 1996.
Since those are pretty standard AMC designs of the time, I assume that AMC remodeled to match the additions just without stadium.
Upon review of the photos on Cinema Tour, the non-stadium auditorium(s) photo(s) does not have the trademark Cineplex Odeon decor of the 80s four-plex. It is possible that these are the same auditoriums and that AMC just remodeled the interiors to match with the newer additions added when it was expanded to 16.
Maybe it was first expanded to from 4 screens to six, then the other section with 10 screens were built. My local AMC Classic (formally Carmike) has a similar set up. There are four screens in a row in one hallway that was built along when the mall was built in 1980, and around 1990 another section was built with 4 theatres on each side of a new separate hallway.
I stand corrected – it is divided ten screens to the left, six screens to the right of the snack bar.
http://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/5673.html
Picking up on various comments made on various North Dekalb pages here on CT, I visited the AMC 16 earlier this year and do strongly believe that the Market Square 4 is part of this 16-plex. This theatre after entering the lobby, to the right side of the snack bar are four slope-seating theatres. To the left of the snack bar is a long hallway that connects to what is essentially a 12-plex stadium style theatre. Pics soon to be up at Cinematour.com
Now AMC Classic Dekalb Mall 16
I CAN’T stand AMC. Why wasn’t I snapping pictures of the original NORTH DEKALB MALL theatre when it was a single theatre and the entry way was from outside. That was a beautiful theatre. Saw many wonderful movies there starting with OLIVER! and then WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY.
Who was it that said, “growing up in Atlanta is like watching your past hauled away in a dump truck”??
No appreciation for nostalgia.
Americans bitch and complain about job loss and the economy, but they did it to themselves by funding and pouring their money into corporations rather than privately owned sectors. Horrible stores like WALMART and Costco.
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All theaters on the same site?
1st Theater, North Dekalb, 1966-1985, Storey Theaters, twined in the early 1980’s became the North Dekalb Twin?
2nd Theater, Cineplex Odeon Market Square 4, 1990-1995 a “jewel box” theater?
Present Theater, 1996, AMC?
Anyone have more info or photos?
Built in place of a defunct department store and utilized some space from a previous 4 screen location. I seem to recall the 4 screen (Plitt I think) replaced and older property that was a Storey property. I once saw it referred to as “forest green” theatre in an article about AMC’s expansion to this location.