What was the attendance rate for the movies?

I assume that prior to Block E, attendance rate at movies for the Deaf/HOH was near 0. I don’t know what it is now. It’s probably much lower than it would be if we had options.

I don’t think we built block e just so the deaf and hard-of-hearing could have a movie theatre.

No, but they did want a multiplex. I suspect that accessibility was included as a requirement.

“the deaf and hard of hearing had no options for seeing movies.”

What was the attendance rate for the movies?

We certainly did. Prior to Block E, the deaf and hard of hearing had no options for seeing movies. And we still need it: Even with Block E, there are only 4 screens in the entire metro area with captioning.

And Rat, do you mean 8.5% vacancy rates? Because an 8.5% occupancy would seem to be a bit of a ghost town to me.

Sure it was. It was telling us that we don’t need that theater.

All about equality.

The market sure the hell wasn’t doing the job.

In order to say that accurately you’d have to have supporting evidence from other cities.

I don’t know if you read the whole MPR piece, but retail occupancy is running about 8.5 percent. A little more than average, but that hardly makes downtown some kind of Dogpatch. On the main, the story said downtown fares better than most large cities. And there’s hope for the future because of all the housing that is opening and being built.

Yes the national economy is getting weak. However, the weakest go first and it is downtown mpls that seems the weakest of them all. The city has a gimmick for everything. Their down town programs are a joke. How is the old city center fairing these day no open retail space in that mess. My point is that the city council of mpls is an a bunch of financial morons that don’t have a clue. The only thing they can do is complain that the state does not fund them, while they spend money foolishly. Cut the funding more, then the city would not be able to screw the taxpayer.

I was too. The Crown Theater there finally gave me the ability to see movies. Two whole options a week

I’m so glad that the taxpayer got to subsidize your entertainment.

Amen. One pass down each side early on a Sunday morning would do the trick.