Golden Triangle Mall 5

dallasmovietheaters on February 22, 2023 at 4:01 pm

The Landmark returned to operations in the Fall of 2022 apparently with little to no leasing payment obligation and just on weekends. Decisions were made during the week as to whether to reopen on the upcoming weekend making planning a visit challenging. Sunday nights were the most difficult with the Mall locked at 6p and an unmarked entry in a loading dock area being the only chance of finding your way to a Sunday evening showing.

Landmark threw in the towel and removed the cinema from its website ceasing operations on January 24, 2023. Final screenings using just four auditoriums were “Puss ‘n’ Boots,” “Avatar: Way of Water,” “M3gan,” and “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”

dallasmovietheaters on October 2, 2022 at 8:12 am

The Golden Triangle is the area extending from Denton at the north point to Dallas at the southwest point and Fort Worth on the southwestern point. Each had a role in the marketing of the area to industrial, educational, and commercial development. Developers announced the mall project in 1978 under the name of the Golden Triangle Mall. It had its groundbreaking on June 22, 1978. The original outparcel United Artists was announced as one of the original tenants. That venue opened in June of 1980 (as noted above, it made it to the end of its 20-year leasing term and was shuttered). To answer the question, that outparcel has long since been razed and was later replaced by a Staybridge Suites hotel.

Competition for mall space occurred when the Vista Ridge (later Music City) Mall opened in 1989. With folks bailing out of the tarnished Golden Mall at their 15-year lease opt-outs, the Mall was refreshed including an interior space carved out for the U.A. Golden Triangle 5. The theaters thrived until major competition from a modern Cinemark megaplex across the highway. From there, the interior Mall theater fought against insurmountable odds to try and make it to the end of its lease. UA achieved that but only as a sub-run discount house. Silver Cinemas continued the venue as a discount house.

Following COVID-19, the theatre staged an unlikely comeback relaunching after a year and a half after its March 16, 2020 closure likely negotiating a sweetheart year-to-year lease on September 29, 2021. On paper, Landmark Theatres took over the venue from its own Silver Cinemas in February of 2022 when the circuit dissolved the Silver Cinemas nameplate. The theater escalated to first-run when discount titles were challenging to find and customers of second-run product almost as rare. The customer base was thin with the theater finally operating only on weekends as it reached its first anniversary in its post-COVID closure existence.

Landmark closed here on September 25, 2022 likely bailing instead of opting for another year (if that was indeed the agreement). That left Texas with a single Landmark location in the Inwood Theatre. The Mall management obviously likes the foot traffic offered by a theater and hopefully it will return. But the odds seemed likely against it with modern megaplexes and destination bar/food alternatives very close by.

dallasmovietheaters on October 1, 2022 at 11:41 pm

Landmark has temporarily closed the Golden Triangle location as of September 26, 2022

Trolleyguy on June 10, 2016 at 5:10 pm

Now showing films on only 3 screens. Probably can’t afford to go digital in all the auditoriums.