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Originally Posted by red-paladin
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Having new cinemas that will compete with their own cinena complex a few blocks away on Burrard at Scotiabank...I'm trying to understand the logic. The reason the cinemas on Granville (and in once this very building) were originally closed in the 2000s and 2010s was because of a gradual decline in casual cinema-going, high ticket prices, and high rents. None of those things has changed - in fact, some of them are worse now. So why would now be the right time to go back into the cinema business at this location?
Having said that, I do like the idea of the alternative entertainment options - Granville really needs this, as it is naturally a focal point for entertainment, but has too few options.
Bowling: yes (hopefully a "proper" full-size modern bowling alley). VR games: Big yes (I recently took the family to the new one at Broadway and Cambie and it is so much fun). More restaurants...meh, not bad
per se, but I'd rather have something else. I guess you have to have some food options if there's cinemas. Old-style arcades...hmm, I can't see people paying for that experience any more considering you can get all the classic 8 bit games on your phone now (does anybody still go to the ratty arcades a little further down Granville that has
Time Crisis et al any more?).
And hopefully they programme the cinema to have alternative films to what they have at Scotiabank - for example, arthouse films, foreign films, small-release films, etc.
I wish them luck, but wow, that's been more than half a decade to go back to where they started.
EDIT: Apparently I didn't read enough. If there's no actual cinema screens in the complex then great - they have the Scotiabank around the corner as mentioned. There's also mention of a 646-person "concert venue" - in reality, does that mean a superclub, or is it a more formal event for mid-size music concerts - something of that size is desperately needed!