Sundance Square

"My hunch just kind of stemmed out of watching the theater business," Campbell says. He says three-way negotiations often can be difficult. "This one was a pleasure," he says. "Our relationship with AMC has been very good." The inbound tenant for 304 Houston St. is Houston-based Norris Training Systems Inc., which has been scouring the city for a location nearly 18 months.

Campbell tells GlobeSt.com that Sundance will begin demolition within two weeks on the theater, which just closed two days ago. Sundance's part of the deal is to deliver a white box with level floors while retaining stadium seating in a portion of the two-story building, AMC's 11-screen location for the past 15 years. The AMC Palace 9 at 220 E. 3rd St., which opened 10 years ago, stands intact.

The Fort Worth conference center will be the second largest in Norris' portfolio, which includes an 80,000-sf facility at 4522 Fredricksburg Rd. in San Antonio. Linda Hampton, Norris' executive vice president, says the Fort Worth ribbon-cutting tentatively is set for August. In the fall, Norris plans to open a 26,000-sf conference center in the 1.1-million-sf CityCentre in Houston.

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