By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
A potential new movie theater is one step closer to coming to Glasgow.
Following a successful social media inquiry in May, Larry Glass announced he had a three-hour meeting with Elizabethtown’s Crowne Pointe Theatre Managing Partner Rick Roman and later said he had signed an agreement “to engage an architectural firm to begin the design process for the new Glasgow Theater.” Glass told Glasgow News 1 that the firm doing the design work is Studio 3 Design based in Fishers, Indiana.
“While this project is still in the preliminary stages and not yet finalized, we are excited to be taking this important step forward,” Glass wrote on social media. “Should the project come to fruition, we will be connected in some form or fashion with the Crowne Point [Theatre].”
As of right now, Glass said the theater would have eight screens with the possibility of expanding to 10. The proposed location is property behind Walmart on the Veterans Outer Loop, which is owned by the Glass family, according to the Public Valuation Administration’s website.
Glass said the Glasgow theater will be designed similar to the Crowne Pointe Theatre in Elizabethtown.
“According to [Roman’s] information and according to that Facebook post people are going to E’town now, which blows my mind that people would drive 40-45 minutes to go to a movie,” Glass said. “And we’re losing a lot of money to E’town when that happens because they don’t just go to a movie, they go up there and they eat and probably buy some gas, so it’s probably costing our community — in various forms — a couple of million a year just in revenue, if I had to guess.”
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