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20-year-old Columbia Center movie theater to close

By Jake Dorsey
People wait in line in 1998 for a matinee show at the then-new Columbia Center 8 movie theater at the Columbia Center mall in Kennewick. The theater, which became The Regal Columbia Mall Stadium 8, is set to close by the end of July 2018, a mall official confirmed.
People wait in line in 1998 for a matinee show at the then-new Columbia Center 8 movie theater at the Columbia Center mall in Kennewick. The theater, which became The Regal Columbia Mall Stadium 8, is set to close by the end of July 2018, a mall official confirmed. Tri-City Herald
Kennewick, WA

The screens at Regal Cinema's movie theater at Columbia Center mall in Kennewick are going dark for good.

Meredith Reed, the mall's director of marketing and business development, said the 20-year-old theater will close.

“We do have plans to develop the space for a new retailer that we’re excited to bring in, and we hope to share details when the time is right,” Reed said in a statement.

Reed would not confirm reports that the theater will be replaced with a sporting goods store.

The theater opened at the mall in 1998 as an Act III Theatres-branded cinema.

The move comes as construction begins on a new Fairchild theater in the Southridge area of Kennewick.

This story was originally published June 21, 2018 at 7:39 PM with the headline "20-year-old Columbia Center movie theater to close."

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