UA Park Meadows Starport - Lone Tree, Colorado - 1996

When the Park Meadows Mall was originally built in 1996, a 6-plex movie theater was built inside. It had two levels. Upstairs was a fairly mediocre 35mm movie house. Downstairs was kind of like a Showbiz Pizza or something. It did have a Showscan 60fps 70mm projector for "rides". It sucked. This was not built far away from UA's Greenwood Plaza 12 theater, so we at Greenwood generally hated this place. Not too long after this place opened, UA built a stand-alone 12-plex theater outside of the mall. I got to help take this theater apart. Was there to help put it together and disassemble it. Very gratifying. Not sure what is in place of the theater now or if they just blocked the area of the mall off.

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[MrOffthecliff]

I always liked this theater a lot more than the newer complex across C470... especially the 2 THX houses. Saw Star Trek: First Contact probably 3 or 4 times there.

[FilmTechCinema]

@MrOffthecliff Do you happen to know what exists in place of the theater now? I'll be damned if I can remember exactly where it was.

[MrOffthecliff]

@FilmTechCinema, it's was upper level where the food court is, off the east side mall entrance. Originally it had (I think) the Sam Goody equal to it across the hall of the food court. Not sure what is there now. But if you came into the mall from that east food court entrance, it was the back right corner before you actually entered the main mall hallway.