Hartford’s Bow Tie Cinemas is reopening next month under a new operator that manages several other venues in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Apple Cinemas recently leased the 60,000-square-foot, 17-screen multiplex at 330 New Park Ave., according to KeyPoint Partners, the Mass.-based commercial real estate service firm that brokered the deal. Apple Cinemas, which already has locations in Simsbury, Torrington, Waterbury and Barkhamsted, plans to reopen the Hartford theater sometime in July, KeyPoint said.
Bow Tie recently vacated the theater owned by New York-based property management company Diamond Properties, and still operates multiplexes in New Haven, Greenwich, Trumbull, New Canaan, and four split between Norwalk and Stamford.
The Hartford theater, like all Apple Cinemas, will feature luxury stadium recliner seats, modern lobbies and other state-of-the-art equipment, KeyPoint added. Apple Cinemas is also currently looking to occupy other sites across the U.S., it said, even though cinemas have been forced to shutdown to comply with COVID-19-related social distancing mandates.
According to the Hartford Courant, Apple Cinemas is also taking over the eight-year-old Spotlight Theatres in downtown Hartford’s Front Street District. The operator is planning to invest over $500,000 to renovate the four-screen theater for its reopening on July 15.
Meanwhile, outdoor cinema venues have been popping up all over the country in recent weeks, including in Manchester, Wethersfield and other towns in Connecticut.
