Arts & Entertainment
Hollywood Theater Owner Could Run New Downtown Multiplex
The Theatre Historical Society of America is one of three entities vying to operate the proposed Downtown cinema.
DORMONT, PA - The owners of the Hollywood Theater have been mentioned as the possible operators of a proposed six-screen Downtown multiplex.
The Pittsburgh-based nonprofit Theatre Historical Society of America, which purchased the Hollywood on Potomac Avenue in February, could be selected to run the multiplex the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust plans for the old Bally fitness club on Sixth Street.
Pittsburgh City Paper reported that two other operators for the theater also are under consideration: Rick Stern, who owns the Manor Theater in Squirrel Hill, and Dallas Mavericks owner and Mt. Lebanon native Mark Cuban’s Landmark Theaters.
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The Bally fitness club once was the Gateway, a first-run movie theater for decades. It closed in 1980 as suburban multiplexes were sending Downtown and neighborhood theaters into an irreversible death spiral.
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