Alamo Drafthouse - Circle C!! (Austin: house, theater, construction)

[llkltk]

It is well worth it. People will have things closer to home and save on gas driving into the city. There is plenty of open space in SW Austin. If you live in this area, you will see the rewards when you sell your home someday.

[Jennibc]

Originally Posted by llkltk

It is well worth it. People will have things closer to home and save on gas driving into the city. There is plenty of open space in SW Austin. If you live in this area, you will see the rewards when you sell your home someday.

Well, we're renting right now but with plans to buy down here in the next couple of months. But this is the last house I'll be buying so our son will be the one that sees any rewards. I still will miss that open space on the corner. It's very pretty.

[mimimomx3]

That's great! Less crowds for us at the Draft House on Anderson Lane and at Santa Rita.

[Driftwood1]

I would rather that read -IF- you sell your house someday. Not everyone buys a house with plans to sell it. Ok, most probably do but thats a whole other discussion, I'll shut up now

Originally Posted by llkltk

you will see the rewards when you sell your home someday.

[austin-steve]

I think it will be a positive addition to the area and I will definately be going there to see movies. We currently go to the one on S. Lamar. Did they move the one downtown? I heard they were, but don't know if it happened yet.

Side bar: At the downtown Alamo, when we went to see the Wizard of Oz set to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon soundtrack, my kids (huge Harry Potter fans) inquired as to the meaning of a bumper sticker on sale down stairs, which said "Republicans for Voldemort". Much to my dismay, the explanation took a long time as they just didn't get the joke, or the connection, and kept asking followup questions such as, "is Dumbledore a Democrat"?

I always try to remain politically nuetral when explaning such things, but I did find the bumper sticker amusing. Just don't know if it would be a big seller in the Circle C area.

Steve

[AustinGuy]

Does anyone know if this will be owned by Tim & Carrie like the downtown/South Lamar/Village locations or if it will be a franchise like the one in Lake Creek and the ones in other cities? The franchise ones don't seem to have as many cool events at them.

[llkltk]

Originally Posted by AustinGuy

Does anyone know if this will be owned by Tim & Carrie like the downtown/South Lamar/Village locations or if it will be a franchise like the one in Lake Creek and the ones in other cities? The franchise ones don't seem to have as many cool events at them.

Found this online, it will be corporate owned.

A new Alamo Drafthouse — yes!

As reported by the Community Impact Newspaper: “A $5 million Alamo Drafthouse Cinema theater is planned to open in 2009 in Circle C Ranch, near the intersection of MoPac and Slaughter Lane. The 35,000 sq. ft. theater will have at least eight screens and will be the largest corporate-owned Alamo Drafthouse theater. The new theater will feature digital 3-D technology.”

[Raskolnikov]

I think they are all technically now corporate owned. I don't think there is a distinction between the "Tim owned Alamos" and the "Corporate chain Alamos". I could be wrong, but even Lake Creek has cool events there sometimes.

[plaidmom]

Long-ago long-time Austinite here.

I had no idea Alamo was now corporate.

Isn't that the 6th sign of the apocalypse?

[Jennibc]

Just about any small privately owned business can be "corporate." It just has to do with its business structure. You can have a corporation where all of the stock, not publicly traded, is owned by one person.