Workers prepare to topple a brick wall at Sadler Square last week. The opening will become a new main entrance for a four-screen movie theater. (Our Town Cinemas photo)

Demolition is complete and construction began this week to transform empty storefronts in Sadler Square shopping center off Griffith Street into the planned Our Town Cinemas. Meanwhile, theater developers are inviting residents to share ideas for programming once the cinema opens.

Our Town Cinemas announced Aug. 19 that it planned to convert vacant space at Sadler Square into Davidson’s first hometown movie theater in decades. The theater will occupy the corner of the shopping center next to The Egg at Davidson that once housed a dollar store. Read the full story

By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

Our Town Cinemas Davidson confirmed Wednesday that it plans to renovate vacant storefronts in Sadler Square as a 4-screen, first-run movie theater that could be open by year’s end. Plans call for “bistro table” seating an an “expanded concession menu” of food and drink. Read the full story

Davidson moviegoers could be watching first-run films as early as this winter on a 4-screen movie theater in a renovated storefront at the Sadler Square shopping center off Griffith Street – if a developer can work out financing. Read the full story

The Lake Norman area has another competing newspaper this week, The Lake Norman Citizen, which was scheduled to arrive in mailboxes Friday. Meanwhile, something’s in the wind at Davidson’s Sadler Square, where a developer is seeking permission to renovate part of the shopping center for an undisclosed use.

Also in this edition of BizNotes, dining news from Campania and Restaurant X. and an anniversary for Lake Norman Regional Medical Center.
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