Regal Entertainment Group says it will operate a six-screen Regal Cinemas with stadium seating and digital sound that will play both art-house flicks as well as main stream commercial stuff. Amenities will include "an upscale café concession." The projected opening is mid-2003.

The 32,000-sf space was to be one of Robert Redford's new-concept Sundance theaters, with seven movie screens, an organic-foods restaurant, a microbrew-and-wine bar, an art gallery, live performance programming and retail space. Sundance abandoned the facility in November 2000 after losing its money partner General Cinemas to bankruptcy. The Rouse Co. has been searching for another operator ever since.

Larry Brocato, the Los Vegas-based commercial development manager for Maryland-based Rouse, was not immediately available for comment Wednesday morning on, among other things, who will pay to complete the theater, which was said to be somewhere between 50% and 75% completed before Sundance abandoned the project. A Regal representative also was not immediately available for comment.