Carmike Valley 3
1551 Valley West Drive,
Unit 186,
West Des Moines,
IA
50266
1551 Valley West Drive,
Unit 186,
West Des Moines,
IA
50266
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Looks like the Chicken did ran away to the other side at closing!
Ericson Development announced the $14 million Valley West Mall in 1971 with J.L. Brandeis Department Store as the only announced anchor tenant. The Brandeis and mall would launch August 4, 1975. Dubinsky Brothers Theatres Inc. decided to jump into the Valley West and Southridge Malls, locally. At the VW’s north side would be a new cinema, the Valley 3 Theatres, an 850-seat operation that was next to the Petersen-Harned-Van Mauer anchor. It launched with two audis ready on July 30, 1976 with “Shadow of the Hawk” and “The Shootist.”
Excellence Theatres took over here effective on December 1, 1989 after buying out Dubinksy Bros. In 1991, Carmike and Excellence created a joint operating agreement in February and, that same year, essentially buying out the Excellence side by September. This moved the venue to Carmike ownership.
Carmike declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August of 2000 and shedded a number of low-performing venues nationwide to escape bad leases realted to aged triples, quads and cookie cutter late multiplex-era houses as they were over-extended in the build out of megaplexes of the late 1990s. In Des Moines, alone, Carmike fresh under bankruptcy protection moved on from the Fleur 4 and here at the Valley 3 on August 24, 2000; the River Hills-Riviera on September 7, 2000; the Westwood 6 and the Sierra 3 after September 14, 2000 and at the Carmike 11 on September 21, 2000. Carmike would run away with “Chicken Run,” “The Kid” and “Thomas and the Magic Railroad.” The space was repurposed for restaurant related endeavors.
Opened on July 30, 1976, closed on August 6, 2000.
The ownership was the other way around. The Valley III was operated by Dubinsky circa 1988, then Excellence and then closed by Carmike in 2001.
On October 28, 1988 it was announced that Excellence Theatres would buy Dubinsky Bros Theatres (see Box Office magazine, January 1989 page 45).
In March 1991 Carmike Cinemas reached a deal to take over Excellence Theatres.
This opened on July 30th, 1976. Grand opening ad uploaded in the photo section for this cinema.
Yes, it was operated by Dubinsky in the 80s until they sold out to Excellence ca 1988, and then Carmike (after they bought Excellence).
More commonly known as the “Valley 3 Theatres” and later the “Carmike Valley 3”. Closed August 25, 2001 according the a Des Moines Register article (“Carmike To Close 3 Iowa Theatres”), the mall was remodeled at least twice and the space was occupied by retail, then a restaurant “Kahunaville” which had it’s ribbon cutting celebration on July 25, 2007. Became Ocean Beach Bar & Grill circa November 2008. More information about the mall can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_West_Mall
Actually I believe the ownership was the other way around. Operated by Dubinsky circa 1988, closed by Carmike (circa 2000?).