Downtown Buffalo can expect a new movie theater by year's end.
.@MayorByronBrown tells @WKBW that you can expect a ribbon cutting for the new @AMCTheatres downtown (old Market Arcade site) in the fall.
— Matthew Bové (@Matt_Bove) February 29, 2016
"We hope the ribbon will be cut on the new national movie chain in downtown Buffalo sometime this year," Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown tells 7 Eyewitness News. "By the fall."
The plan to convert the old Market Arcade (Main Street and Washington Street) into an AMC movie theater was originally announced last year. The project was supposed to be done by April 2016 but Brown says Benchmark, the developer, just closed on the building earlier this month.
#Buffalo will have a new downtown movie theater by the end of the year @WKBW pic.twitter.com/EXuJK1Y3fE
— Matthew Bové (@Matt_Bove) February 29, 2016
"That moves this project of bringing a national theater chain one step closer to reality in downtown Buffalo."
Although the opening date has been pushed back Brown is confident this means big things for the city. "It certainly continues the investment momentum that we're seeing downtown."
Benchmark is expected to put about $6 million into the project. The company bought the building for $250,000.
