Lansing-East Lansing, MI Development

[Rizzo]

Originally Posted by LMich

I absolutely hate not having an option of a small theater anywhere within the urban area. You literally have to travel to one of the small cities and villages out in the country to catch anything, and most of those are second-run. I think the closet you get to something like this is Wells Hall at MSU, but I've never been there.

I had to go all the way to the State in Ann Arbor a few months back to see a first-run, independent film. It's embarrassing a metro of this size doesn't have a small theater in the urban area.

BTW, I was surprised that we didn't have more multiplexes considering all the ones that used to be here. I made mention of the AMC east of the Lansing mall, but there was also theaters both out and inside the Meridian Mall years ago (two small theaters inside the mall, and one outside). So, all of the ones being added back I just see as replacements of what used to be. So, Regal (in Delta Township) and Studio C (in Meridian Township) are really just replacing screens lost. The theaters' geography is also conducive to their future success in that you have them far enough apart and serving the four directions: Celebration in the South, NCG in the North, Stuido C in the east and now Regal in the West.

That is surprising. And I was about to say. Many small town theaters have been successful showing independent films and get sell out crowds. I actually made a thread on that awhile back. "The return of small town and neighborhood theaters." You think something like that would be a tremendous success in dt Lansing or EL. I always think