Little known about South Davis County movie theater

WEST BOUNTIFUL (Davis County Clipper) — Since early August, the movie screens at the Gateway 8 Cinemas, here, have been dark.

That’s when the plug was pulled on what is now south Davis County’s only movie theater. And negotiations to reopen have been continuing since, said Spencer Marsden, a partner in the firm of M3B Partners LLC, a group of investors with Utah ties.

His group had been negotiating with General Growth Properties, Inc. (GGP), which owns the West Bountiful complex. Marsden had told the Clipper earlier that he hoped to open in time for the unveiling of the new “Twilight” movie.

However, it doesn’t look like anyone will be viewing that movie or any other on any of the screens anytime soon.

JL Theatres Corp. previously operated Gateway 8 along with others in Taylorsville, Magna and Spanish Fork. However, that firm reportedly defaulted on two loans and had its film projection equipment and other assets foreclosed upon by two banks after it defaulted on the loans, a Provo daily newspaper reported previously.
 

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