SEQUIM – Moviegoers here have a happy ending to look forward to: 10 new screens flanking the town’s east edge.
For now, however, the film-hungry had better have patience, too.
Construction of the Sequim Cinemas, long plagued by delays, should start in 60 days, said Bill Lindberg of Lindberg & Smith, the Port Angeles architecture firm designing the multiplex.
The theaters will take from eight to 10 months to build, Lindberg said.
The $6 million-plus project, to be located at the northwest corner of East Washington Street and Rhodefer Road, comprises a 30,000-square-foot multiplex that will hold nearly 1,200 moviegoers, Lindberg said.
The screens could light up in December, in time for holiday-hit hopefuls such as “Charlie Wilson’s War,” starring Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks, “I Am Legend,” with Will Smith or “Alvin and the Chipmunks” starring, well, you know who.
But if construction is delayed, the Sequim Cinemas will open in early 2008.
That’s about when “Horton Hears a Who,” an animated feature based on the Dr. Seuss book, will be released.
Severe weather from late fall into winter slowed progress on the building, Lindberg said.
“We can’t work on the site when it’s a big mud hole.
“And we were tying up loose ends. The drawings are 98 percent complete.”
