Comments about ‘Centerville may get Megaplex theater’

On that small piece of undeveloped land southwest of the Parrish Lane/I-15 interchange....across the street from the World's Ugliest Industrial Park?

Great.

It will go from the overpass over to structual steel. it will wrap around the existing storage units

Great news. We live in South Davis County and if I never have to park at the Gateway to see a movie again it will be too soon. When your options are that or driving to Layton, it makes going to the movie a LOT less enjoyable.

Please make this happen! The traffic in Layton is horrible. Parking at the Gateway is horrible.
South Davis County needs this development in a big way.
Bountiful & Farmington isn't smart enough to pull this off, figures Centerville would be smart enough for the tax revenue.

I'm all for it. I am looking forward to the new arts complex and home for Rogers Memorial Theatre to which we have had season tickets for many, many years. I rarely attend movies, frankly the price is too high for much of the rubbish they show but it will be great for the teens and keep revenue in South Davis County instead of Salt Lake.

I live in West Bountiful in the neighbor hood directly south west from this area and I am very concerned about the residential apartments being proposed for this area. My concerns are traffic and crime rate increase. I would love the movie complex but have strong feeling about the apartments!

Farmington has a residential/retail/restaurant/movie theater development underway as well at "Station Park" (adjacent to the park and ride for the commuter rail/buses, and near the I-15/Legacy interchanges), with Cinemark's 14-screen theaters set to open early 2011. With the close proximity of Farmington and Centerville, will both new 14-screen theaters be able to make it? South Davis county could benefit from one such development, but I hope two can survive.

Ditto on the apartments. Why not build condos or townhomes

Sounds like a great idea to me! Though I can't figure out why all the residents are so in favor of it when one of their reasons for not wanting Wal-Mart a few years ago was that "we want Centerville to remain a small town."

be commenting on horrible the traffic and parking are in Centerville :)

After living in Clearfield in Davis County for a decade now, I've always wondered why Davis County really is one county. It's has seemed to me that this huge narrow county in reality has two distinctive regions - north and south and in examining the bounty of Layton providing retail and entertainment services to northern Davis County, it's been a bit of a mystery why southern Davis County residents have to add to freeway traffic and air pollution traveling many miles to find decent entertainment. Even Syracuse has a new theater for its own City and there is talk of Roy or Clinton City getting its own theater. It's about time the residents in Southern Davis County have the same access to entertainment as other County residents.

"Farmington has a residential/retail/restaurant/movie theater development underway as well at 'Station Park' (adjacent to the park and ride for the commuter rail/buses, and near the I-15/Legacy interchanges), "

That could be a worry, I'm not sure South Davis is large enough to support two large theaters.

I'm not too worried about the apartments but traffic.

Will this complex be asking for a new FrontRunner station? Perhaps this would be better served to place this in Woods Cross, west of the current FrontRunner Station.

"Our residents are excited about it" is an understatement. We're ecstatic! Going to a movie stopped being desirable after the Gateway 8 closed. Who wants to go to Salt Lake or Layton for a movie?

yeah they are going to move it just for a trax station. the trains stop right there in centerville and wait for each other to pass anyway. it wont be hard to make it into another stop

Makes you wonder why Gateway 8 closed if a 14 theater complex is a good idea in Centerville.

I wonder if the "hoping to break ground in the spring" is an accelerated attempt to beat out the theater going in at Station Park in Farmington. How will south Davis County support two Megaplex theaters when the only first-run theater it had (in Bountiful) had to close?

Because Gateway 8 had bad screens, small theaters and smelled like pee.

Meanwhile --

What happens to the Gateway 8 ?

Sure,
Go ahead and dig up another field,
pour some more concrete, lay some more asphalt and move on.

Then you wonder why Salt Lake is becoming one big Beck Street.