CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Queen City’s last remaining arthouse cinema will close permanently.
Regal Cinemas and its landlord, Eastern Federation Corp., said in a joint statement Wednesday afternoon that the Regal Manor Twin theater in Myers Park will not reopen. Although acquired by the Knoxville, Tennessee-based movie theater chain in 2008, the Manor continued to show independent films, as well as mainstream features, on its two screens.
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The theater opened in 1947 and serves as the anchor tenant of a retail center on Providence Road. The theater and larger center have been speculated as a potential redevelopment target for some time but were previously dismissed as rumors.
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