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The owners of Culver Ridge Plaza, 2255 East Ridge Road, Irondequoit, have been given the green light to rebuild the former Regal Culver Ridge movie theater, which has been vacant since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
On Monday night, the Irondequoit Planning Council gave final approval to a proposal to divide the 55,000-square-foot assets into five commercial spaces.
Three tenants have already signed leases: the Five Below store, the Burlington branch, and Kids Empire, an indoor children’s activity park.
Construction is expected to take 15 to 18 months, said Matt Tomlinson of Marathon Engineering, which is executing the task with Irondequoit TK Owner, the mall’s owning liability corporation.
The redevelopment plans were first shared at a Planning Council workshop last December.
During the workshop, John August of Irondequoit TK Owner said: “We have been working on this refurbishment for over two years and it has been a challenge. The first challenge was to locate large. . . tenants who could occupy this box as it was. “Configured. And secondly, locate a fake tenant, the business that we know can succeed in that location.
The current challenge is cost, which will be “huge, basically because of the multi-level design and the built-in soundproofing in those rooms,” he explained. “I don’t think they can build it stronger. Each block is filled with sand, the floor is reinforced concrete.
On the outside, the decorative-style curved façade will be removed, Tomlinson said.
There are also plans to install landscaped medians in the parking lot to prevent other people from crossing diagonally.
Regal opened its 16-screen, 3,500-seat Culver Ridge Cinema to great fanfare on June 20, 1997. Initially, it hired about 120 people, most of them part-time.
It closed in March 2020 due to restrictions imposed in New York State to stop the spread of COVID-19. However, unlike other Regals, the Irondequoit never reopened.
In March 2022, the owner of Irondequoit TK sued Regal Cinemas for $2. 15 million for non-payment of rent and taxes over the past two years.
The trial was suspended after Regal filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy law. The company has since emerged from bankruptcy, but the prestige of the lawsuit filed through Irondequoit TK Owner is unclear.
Journalist Marcia Greenwood covers the general tasks. Send the item to mgreenwood@gannett. com. Follow her on Twitter @MarciaGreenwood.
This article appeared in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Regal Cinema Space in Irondequoit NY authorized for redevelopment
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