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New Theater Breaks Ground After Two Years' Delay

CANTON, MI-Construction is finally under way on an 18-screen cinema complex in Canton, following long delays arising from environmental questions at the site.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on January 05, 2004

CANTON, MI-Work has begun on an 18-screen cinema in Canton. The 4,000-seat complex is being built for Emagine Entertainment on 16 acres at Ford and Lotz roads.

The project had been tied up for almost two years due to concerns over parking. The project’s parking lot is in Westland and that community had concerns over environmental issues from the lot, which is to be located on a former landfill. The land eventually was declared a brownfield by Canton, to give Emagine a tax break to help pay for clean-up costs for some contamination that exists due to the former landfill.

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