Galaxy Gig Harbor

The theatre’s seating occupancy has been reduced from 2,100 to 960 with the installation of reclining lounge seating. Finishing touches are being made to newly built IMAX auditorium, which will be one of the largest of this type venue west of the Mississippi.

The Harbor Mall project had its first construction in 1982 and it was over at the Harbor Mall Cinemas opening later that year. The cinema waited and waited for the neighboring mall to open. And by 1997, folks were getting a little impatient for the Mall so a new plan was devised which included less of a mall and more of a strip shopping complex with a nine-screen megaplex to arrive by Christmas of 1997. UA was on board with the architectural plans for that venue. And that second plan sort did come to fruition just a bit late… more than ten years later.

As the new Uptown Gig Harbor was taking shape in 2007 in full construction, the Regal Gig Harbor Cinemas 3 closed on January 10, 2008. The Uptown Gig Harbor Galaxy 10 megaplex opened two months later on March 7, 2008. And this time there were a bevy of other stores big and small surrounding the retail complex; it was sort of the way it was imagined 26 years earlier. And Galaxy did it right updating the facility to premium large screen formats and recliners across all auditoriums and moving from sheer quantity (2,160 seats) to a reduced but more comfy 960 seat cap. Better late than never! The theater survived the COVID-19 pandemic was still flourishing in the mid-2020s.