Ground broken on new Harkins Theatres multiplex in Queen Creek

Posing before the groundbreaking's ceremonial toss of dirt were, from left, Harkins Theatres mascot Movie Monkey, theater chain owner Dan Harkins, Vestar executive Ryan Desmond, Queen Creek Mayor Gail Barney, Queen Creek Marketplace Property Manager Debra Wood and theater chain mascot Fill-up the Cup. The 14-theater multiplex should open in spring 2015, Mr. Harkins said during the ceremony. / Picture by Wendy Miller, Independent Newsmedia
Posing before the groundbreaking’s ceremonial toss of dirt were, from left, Harkins Theatres mascot Movie Monkey, theater chain owner Dan Harkins, Vestar executive Ryan Desmond, Queen Creek Mayor Gail Barney, Queen Creek Marketplace Property Manager Debra Wood and theater chain mascot Fill-up the Cup. The 14-theater multiplex should open in spring 2015, Mr. Harkins said during the ceremony. / Picture by Wendy Miller, Independent Newsmedia

By Wendy Miller | Independent Newsmedia

Dan Harkins, owner of Arizona-based Harkins Theatres, has been watching and hoping for six to seven years for an opportunity to open a theater in Queen Creek and now that time has come. Mr. Harkins made the comments to a couple hundred people at a groundbreaking ceremony Feb. 15 in the Queen Creek Marketplace, on the southwest corner of Rittenhouse and Ellsworth roads.

“When the opportunity came up with Vestar and the Queen Creek Town Council, it was a bull’s-eye,” Mr. Harkins said during an interview prior to the ceremony. He said the population in the region the theater chain considers its trade area finally exceeded 100,000, making it ideal for the new multiplex.

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