Dear Johnnie: As soon as the Dillard’s situation is put to bed, the actual demolition and reconstruction of the mall will begin sometime this year. Part of the new mall will be a new movie theater. My question is, will the new theater be completed before the old one is closed and torn down? I hope we are not without a local theater for an extended period of time. — Moviegoer
Dear Moviegoer: When Twin Peaks Mall is demolished, Longmont will be without a movie theater, but the mall’s owner won’t predict when that will happen or how long it will be before the new theater is built.
“We are trying to minimize the period that Longmont would be without a theater,” Allen Ginsborg, managing director and principal for mall owner NewMark Merrill, told me Friday. “… It’s in nobody’s best interest to have this closed.”
Ginsborg noted that the theater will be part of the first phase of the new construction.
Again, he would not say when he thinks demolition will occur or how long it will be from the current theater’s destruction to the new theater’s opening.
Dear Readers: I went to Saturday night’s Face concert at Vance Brand Auditorium, which — by the way — was awesome.
I bring this up because the opening act was Skyline High School’s Alpine Jazz Choir. I periodically hear and see complaints about the media not paying enough attention to students who participate in the arts, so I want to let the St. Vrain community know that our schools are filled with students who are superb musicians. And the Alpine Jazz Choir is top-notch.
