Comments on: BREAKING NEWS: Burien Town Square Could Be Getting A 10-Screen Cinema Complex

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:32 +0000

John, well said! My sentiments exactly.

By: John

John — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:46:12 +0000

I like the idea of having a couple cinema’s in Burien but not so sure they have to be all that much. A 2 or 3 screen theater would be about right. Keep it simple, homey, like Burien is. I don’t want my town to turn into another city that wants the big business just so they can say they have the numbers or have the chamber pat themselves on the back. Let’s have a Burien that we can call home, walk around in at night and feel safe. That’s what’s important to me. There’s already one Bellevue and one Seattle, let’s keep Burien small and tight like it should be. If you want all the fancy nightlife go into Seattle I say.

By: David

David — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:07:06 +0000

It sounded good to me initially, but then I look at the other cities that have local theaters. So many have fallen into disarray. Southcenter’s AMC and Kent Station look nice now, but not long ago Regal used to be the nice one. In 7-10 years the theater will be dated and in need of updating. The Town Square has not reached it’s full potential yet. It will in time, but hopefully with a little less commercialism.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:36:38 +0000

I think its a great idea we mine as well do it before one goes up in white center or west seattle. Its bound to happen

By: girthman

girthman — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:10:28 +0000

Lame idea — exactly what Burien doesn’t need!!! The Burien Transit Center + 10 screen muliti-plex = crime and vandalism. When will the “build it and they will come” mentality end? Look at Town Square….ha!

By: candice.

candice. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:08:22 +0000

I’m excited to try the Tin Room’s theatre. Just last Saturday my friends and I went to the Big Picture in Belltown to see Zombieland. The small intimate feel (and the fact of being able to booze it up) was great.

I’d much rather go to the Tin Room than a big cinema… but that’s just me. I agree it’s really not far to Southcenter.

By: wanker

wanker — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:50:11 +0000

When does the Tin Room’s theater open? Or has it already? I looked at their website and there was no info.

By: wanker

wanker — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:47:44 +0000

I too was in awe of the self buttering station, until I realized the draw back. HOW DO YOU GET BUTTER IN THE MIDDLE!?!?! in the old days (and I mean the 90′s and early 2000′s) you could ask the nice young person behind the counter to fill the bucket halfway, add butter, add popcorn to the top and more butter.

Please let me know if you have found a way around this, as I think we are just one small tweak from greatness!

By: Ian Gunsul

Ian Gunsul — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:29:18 +0000

So with TS Phase 1 at 0% retail occupancy and hovering at 10% for the upper residential floors, the city wants to push forward with Phase 2? Wouldn’t it have been a better use of time by city management to try to get business’s into that completely empty space along 5th Ave and 152nd than to dive headlong into another black hole building? Why can’t this movie theatre go into the existring EMPTY retail space of Phase 1?
At least looking at the BIAA brings some visual pleasure and uniqueness to our Town Square, unlike another empty building with a 10 screen multi-plex as it’s sole tenant.

By: Rainycity

Rainycity — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:28:50 +0000

Yup, They have already priced out some of the mom & pop type stores that really make a town feel neighborly, I try and shop at them (even though they cost a bit more) just because of the “feel”. Screw Wal-mart