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10-theatre complex planned in Orléans
Tony Lofaro
The Ottawa Citizen
Sunday, October 19, 2008
OTTAWA - If city council approves, Orléans will get a new movie theatre, a state-of-the art 10-screen complex, next year.
The 41,000-square-foot complex, at Innes Road and Belcourt Boulevard, will feature movie theatres that will average approximately 210 high-back seats in stadium-style seating. It'll have digital projection and wall-to-wall curved screens. It will also include a family-oriented, interactive games zone and party rooms.
It will be developed by Empire Theatres on lands owned by Trinity Development Group.
The complex still needs the municipal OK, but construction is expected to start next spring with a possible opening date in the fall, said Dean Leland, vice-president of Media and Studio Relations for Empire Theatres, which has its headquarters in Stellarton, N.S.
"The location is in a hot retail corridor," said Mr. Leland, adding that the theatre will serve the growing population of Orléans, near Jeanne d'Arc Boulevard. The complex will employ about 60 people.
The Orléans theatres will add to Empire's 13 complexes throughout Ontario, including those in the World Exchange, the Rideau Centre and Orléans Town Centre on Centrum Boulevard.
"The location we have out there now at the Orléans Town Centre is an older, six-screen location without stadium seating and without the amenities that moviegoers really like now," said Mr. Leland.
"The intent long-term is that this new complex would replace the theatres at the Orléans Town Centre.
"We have a lease that we are operating under there now and we'll begin an assessment process on whether we'll ride out the lease or do something different."
Mr. Leland declined to disclose the value of the new theatre complex.
© The Ottawa Citizen 2008
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