They've had a "mixed bag" with their KAnsas City Power and Light District development. They tried to pass dress codes which were deemed "racist". Thye also had problems with running the Movie Theatre.. Hopefully, maybe they learned something from that debacle.

There should be a curfew for kids under 18 years old. I hope this doesn't become the new hangout for kids just like White Marsh Mall has become a teenage hangout on the weekend. If this business wants people to patronize that spend money, it better be safe with visible security. If I see mobs of teenagers, I won't go.

I'm still confused. How is this different from the failed Towson Commons only two blocks away??? Oh, maybe they will have guard towers, like Mondawmin Mall! LOL!

Local businesses in Towson are struggling to hang on. Let's build more restaurants to cut up the pie. Then, let's add several movie theatres just in case they can make it while one recently failed. We have empty properties and offices all over Towson but let's build more. . . any wonder why we're all shaking our heads?

I attended the January community meeting with the developer's rep. where they talked about the wealth in Towson. The wealth is in West Towson/Ruxton. Those families will continue to go to Hunt Valley Mall and theatres, a short and easy commute down Falls Road & I83, as opposed to the horrible traffic in Towson, not to mention underground parking (think Towson mall murders, robbery, auto theft, etc). The Towson theatre patrons will be coming in by the busload.

JD Stuts, what would you build there? I understand the concerns about traffic and security, and think there are ways to address these issues - but sometimes when I read the comments on Patch, they are consistently negative with no positive options.

Why don't we build off the success of feet on the street and redesign Towson to be a more walkable downtown. More people, more eyes, more shopping/dining, less comfortable criminals. I don't know the perfect traffic solution but I know ideas were tossed around about making York road 1-way and diverting the traffic to the bypass or elsewhere...but it seems that idea is now lost. This movie theater development is building new instead of rehabbing what you already have. This development will seem nice for probably about 6 mos. and then will become dangerous or attract a unpleasant crowd and WILL NOT see any of Towson's "wealth". Why not make this space in to a larger venue for Trader Joe's. Add a wine bar and a few upscale restaurants but please...no theater. I know its not that easy...but can we get a little more creative and responsible about city planning? Hampden is below the city line but feels safer and more refined than Towson. Towson is on the way out...suburban flight to Hunt Valley and north is already happening and due to the politically correct society we live in...we can't do anything about it.

Towson almost has it, but they stopped and were dazzled with the movie theater. Between Towson and Hunt Valley there are enough retail, bars and restaurants.The ultimate goal there was to attract the college students. I think that has been achieved. What they are missing is a center for the arts and music. I've suggested it before. Having a center for orchestra's or plays of the kind that is in downtown Baltimore is the draw. Wouldn't that better compliment the bars and restaurants that are already in Towson? With the over 800 car garage that is already planned for the Towson Square project it just seems to me that the problem of parking for a venue of music and arts is already solved.

Please consider some of the towns in New Jersey for urban development (not the cities). My friends who live in Scotch Plains have towns near them that have wonderful shops, ice cream places, restaurants, toy stores... all on the street. They are crowded at night with on-street parking (not underground) and safe and fun to walk around. Oh, by the way, I didn't see any movie theaters. I agree with some of the others who have posted. I understand movie theaters draw people, but so does upscale shopping/eating. Can we please stop treating Towson like a college town. Remember it is the county hub, and there are many attorneys and other professionals who will stay late and eat and shop there if the atmosphere is right.

Go community leaders! Deal with the Towson traffic & pedestrian pattern issues now, because your not gonna believe what a people-magnet, mecca this new top-o-the-line, Cinemark, high-tech, 16-screen luxury-plex will become in Towson, from the moment they swing open the doors.

What's coming is an extraordinary, film-exhibition phenomenon, a cutting-edge Cinemark luxury-plex, well-established nationwide as regional *category killers* , just like "The Eqyptian" quickly became years ago in Arundel Mills, which Cinemark Theatres now owns and operates as well.

Cinemark's *Tinsletown* level locations offer a lot more than a state-of-the-art, first-run slate of general audience and art-specialty feature films on curved 40' screens. The new location will also offer cultural alternative entertainment to the community including The Met Opera simulcasts, & cool new interactive digital technologies now emerging in the Cinemark Tinsletown- branded locations nationwide.

The long awaited Cordish Co. development will be first-class all the way. & fill a niche that Towson has sorely lacked for over a decade. Any recalcitrant community leaders left need to stop bitching & start planning for a tsunami influx of leisure spending commerce that's on the way.

The project is underway & *magical thinking* will not prevent an influx of citizens seeking to enjoy the new regional anchor-plex location, & numerous area amenities at which to spend their entertainment dollars in, Towson, MD.

Ms. Sullivan, In response to your terribly snarky attempted insult that lends nothing civil to the discussion, I am in fact a multi-award winning expert in movie theatre success, having been given the prestigious National Business Leader of The Year Award for my career achievements in that regard by The National Trust for Historic Preservation. I have also been honored for my industry knowledge and 35 year career milestones by The National Association of Theatre Owners and ShoWest!

It seems as is the alias trolls are something you catch for a variety of reason online, and they are now infecting the post forum about something taking place in Towson, Baltimore County, that was not personal, or about me. Efforts to take things spiraling down in that direction will stop once I depart the scene. Sorry to have these folks on my case to this degree. They may taunt some more, but generally they lose interest in the discussion quickly once i go. There's no basis for it, but they showed up one day on my case, and now there heeere. Buh Bye. :-)

The Towson patch forum displays a disturbing level of barely contained racism, and armchair developer second-guessing, over a project anchored by a luxury-plex, planned for over an decade and now under construction. So many bigoted opinions, so little insight and analysis beyond personal prejudices and bitter axe grinding. It's no wonder Towson has languished and ossified for so long it's formed a commercial crust of FAIL. Perhaps there were just too many clueless pontificators raising their voices in fear and ignorance thinking it's 1972 as they scheme to keep *those* people down the road and away from Towson, MD.

I think Cordish's development in Louisville is kind of iffy.
http://insiderlouisville.com/news/2011/10/13/is-cordish-reaching-out-to-louisville-independents-restaurateurs-to-fill-red-star-space-at-fourth-street-live/

Bill, Despite what the troll posters claim, my enthusiasm for the new plex has nothing to do with a ""vendetta against The Senator"? as I have deep concerns about that troubled project at the long shuttered historic landmark.

My enthusiasm for the Towson project is based on my knowledge of the entertainment complex the developers secured for Maryland with the latest Cinemark *Tinsletown* level prototype, which most movie theatre patrons today have never experienced.

While I appreciate and love the ambiance of historic cinemas, this new location will be something else altogether. Cinemark does not just incorporate the latest emerging technology, they develop it as well and the location will become a regional point of destination for entertainment choices well beyond what will be available elsewhere.

In light of Cinemark's stellar national reputation for technological innovation and deepening their appeal to a wide demographic with a varied slate of *alternative* programming like the Met Opera simulcasts, satellite live concert hookups and live performances as well, the location will maintain a strong appeal and patronage in a wide variety of ways that are not yet well understood by the public.

Tom, If you feel so enthusiastic about this suburban competitor with The Senator, perhaps you should apply for a job at the popcorn stand? I don't know if they take people with criminal records, so you better hurry before your trial in November.

http://www.centurytheatres.com/century-theatres-employment

It'd help you to move on, and give you something to do other than indulge in misogyny:

Luke Broadwater ‏@lukebroadwater
Kiefaber refuses to talk to media because Melody Simmons, whom he derides as a "housewife" is here

Keep trying to drive a stake through the heart of the Senator, Kiefibber. Just keep in mind, we won't let you.

"If I can't have her, nobody will!"

Balt Observer: Your quotes are false and misleading, but then that's your MO. What you will come to better understand about The Senator project as things evolve, is that your darlings are doing an horrific job of driving a stake of willful ignorance through the heart of The Senator. Now run along, please, the grownups are talking on another subject.

Tom, in case you hadn't noticed, no one takes your rants seriously anymore now that you've revealed yourself to be a narcissitic, misogynistic, vindictive arse. The jig is up. Get a life.

We plan on happily enjoying the Senator.

DCMercle, Re: The Rechers I respect them and all that they have invested and achieved at the former Towson Theatre. The youth entertainment market & regional point of destination venues have changed, however, as evidenced by the some recent difficulties that have cropped up. They may be planning to press full-stream ahead, and if they are, more power to them. What I note, however is that there is no sit-down facility that you envision, and I agree there's a market for it. It's the direction we're were attempting to take The Senator through the community based, non-profit approach when the BDC instead decided they didn't like the *multi-cultural*, multipurpose film and live music performance venue direction we were heading. As we were once headed in an enhanced, expanded programming direction at The Senator that wasn't well known, so may the Rechers, & you won't know till you ask. There are patterns of uses of historic theatres that turn a corner, particularly when a youth-oriented policy becomes more and more challenging as the owners are aging. The theatre facility is there with well done adjacent improvements that could well be converted to the sit down, entertainment amenity for grownups you cite. It would require a full scale refurbishment etc., which may only be cost effective with a non-profit status of some sort. The Recher's may be ready to sell or long-term lease to a non-profit entity which could raise the funds required to fit it out for its next incarnation.