Hollis Cinemas

UPDATE July21 - Aug 21

What a month, so much has happened the lobby and hall have been textured and painted. Artist Larry Brown has painted murals on one of the lobby’s walls. Poster cases are in place with coming attraction posters in them. The lights are on; Christy from Burden Electric has made great progress. The foam for the stadium steps, 3 semi truck loads, arrived the second week of August and Gene Attaway and crew from Remos Construction had it in place in just a few days, and the concrete top was poured by Wantland and Sons this last week. The tile in the bathrooms was completed by Kino Floors this past week, what a great job they have done. My sister Diana, my wife Susie and Kip Culver picked the colors and Dale from Kino created the layout.

Update on Construction Progress

 

 
 

Apr. 6- Apr. 17

Week # 11 and 12 the roof is almost complete and will be finished by mid next week. The floors have been poured on the inside and most of the sidewalks have been finished. Starting on Monday the interior framing is to begin, Kevlin steel has started the rebuilding of the marquee, when done the marquee will have the neon replaced on it and a digital LED sign inset on it.

 

Apr. 20 – May 14

Weeks 13 thru 16 have shown great progress the interior framing has been almost completed and the projection room floor is ready to be poured. The main ac ducts have been installed and main sprinkler lines are in place. The auditoriums have taken shape, #1 will have approximately 130 seats, #2 will have approximately 165 seats, #3 will have approximately 110 seats, and #4 will have approximately 100 seats.

 

May 15 – June 3

Wow, it is amazing what has been done in the past month. The interior framing is complete, and the drywall is being hung. The entire ruff in plumbing is complete. The ruff in electrical will be complete this week as will the duct work. The insulation of the interior walls will start this week as well. Gene from Remos Construction has started the sealing of the exterior walls and the painting of the back wall. The installation of the upper windows will start next week.

 

June 4 – July 20

Finally the sheetrock is all in place, now to just finish the taping and texturing of the walls and that should be done by the 29^th of July. The grid ceiling started on the 13^th of July and should finish by the end of the month. The first load of the foam for the stadium steps is set to deliver on Aug. 10^th, the stadiums should take about 2 weeks from start to finish. Carpet and tile have been picked out with the help of Susie Hollis, Diana Jones, and Kip Culver. Tile in the bathrooms is scheduled for Aug. 3^rd, and will be installed by Kino Floors. The Theatre still seems to be on schedule for a late 2009 opening. You can now also look at the new theatre web site www.holliscinemas.com , you can subscribe to the newsletter on the web site and every Thursday you will receive a list of current features and show times as well as be able to watch the previews of the films.  

OR see: GMTeConnect which will also run Movie times and a link to the new Hollis Cinemas website!

Framing the Interior

  Over the last month the interior of the new Cinema is really taking shape as the concrete floors were poured and all the framing was completed.

**Here the floors are poured for the 4 theaters

   The Framing was completed on the first and second floors and drywall began last week. 

The view from the 2nd floor overlooks downtown Globe and will house the offices and the screen rooms.

The Interior Walls

For the last couple of weeks the framing for the interior walls have been going up. This has been progressing right on schedule and soon the mezzanine will be installed and it will be time for dry wall.

Most people looking from the outside won't notice much  - except perhaps the framing of the ticket booth which was also completed this last week. 

Now that the walls are up, you'll beable to see the floorplan of the FOUR theaters. YES, they all fit! 

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Week 11,12

 

The old marquee is being rebuilt and will be installed on the corner of the building when complete. Kelvin Steel is completeing the rennovation and when done it will have the neon replaced and a digitial LED sign inset  on it.

The roof is almost complete and will be finished by next week. Work continues on the floors with a majority of the interior floors complete and some of the sidewalk poured. Starting Monday, interior framing will begin for walls.

 

Week 8,9,10

 

All the exterior walls are done and the steel beams and steel roof deck are completed and we began to pour concrete. The flooring is a long process with all the different slopes and variations in the floors.

We also got the main electrical panel in this week and all the electrical conduit in place.

Week 7

 

 

The Front Wall facing Broad Street and Side Wall facing Cedar Street were finished this week. The sub grade on auditorums 3 and 4 were prepared for pouring concrete and Remos Construction started putting the cornice on the top edge of the building and prepared for finishing over the weekend.

The Cornice is fabricated out of styrofoam and then primed and painted with a stone texture.

The steel work starts next week and we expect to have the roof on the building by Friday.

Choice comes to movie-goers

Walk inside the theater at this point and you'll see the beginnings of what will be the four theater "bay"s on the ground floor. The dirt flooring is built up to accomodate stadium seating and maximize the number of people per theater. The largest one will hold approximately 160 and the smallest, almost half that size. This allows Hollis a great deal of flexibility to bring in films with a smaller audience (ie: documentaries and those films geared towards a specific market), or move his big ticket films to the smaller space after the first 2 weeks. 

Films that Hollis wouldn't have brought in previously will find their way to the NEW Hollis theater. Providing all of us with a variety of movie-going experiences. Just think, Bruce Willis and Michael Moore playing side-by-side. This is the real "art" of owning a multi-plex. Sorting through the thousands of films  and deciding what the local audience wants to see. For example, check out the many documentary films available at Documentary Films!  

And did you know that "Ocean's Eleven" is on the LDS Film site because 2 of the major characters are Mormon?   Find out who they are by going to:  LDS Films   

Hollis tells me that ticket prices will range from $6 - $8.50. (Not the $11 as rumoured!). And with four theaters there will be a wide variety of films which will satisfy any movie goer.   

Week 6

The conduit for the underground electric was completed and some additional plumbing was done this week. The masons continued the front and side walls and completed them this week. A plywood cap was put on to attach the architectural styrofoam pieces rim the north and west walls.

THese were installed on Friday, making way for the Steel crew to come in on Monday and begin the roof. By the end of next week the roof should be on and soon work will move inside.

Week 5 - Steel

  

The walls on the front of the theatre and Cedar Street are under construction, and by weeks end they were about half way done. These walls are alittle more complicated because of all the windows and doors. We also got the plumbing roughed-in for the bathrooms and perhaps most exciting was when Saguaro Steel set the beams that span the theaters' main entrance. The corner entrance will eventually display the original Globe Theater marquee.