ORLANDO-GC Cos. of Chestnut Hill, MA, parent of General Cinema Theaters Inc., is shuttering four local properties today with a total 28 screens after apparently failing to find a buyer for the financially-strapped assets. The other theaters are in Boca Raton, Coral Gables, Plantation and Palm Beach Gardens.
CHARLOTTE-This Durham, NC company didn't have to put out bids for a materials contractor to build its new $3.2 million, 4,240-sf plant at 325 E. Hebron St. here. Unicon Concrete is using its own product.
MIAMI-Operational shock waves continue to rumble through the movie theater business. Regal Cinemas, both South Florida's and the nation's largest operator, is reported to be shelving plans for new locations and trying to cancel leases on existing properties.
EUGENE, OR-Guard Publishing Co., which owns the Eugene Register-Guard newspaper, wants to develop the Summer Oaks Business Park on 20 acres next to its newspaper office on Chad Drive.
SUNNYVALE, CA - The international electronics firm is operating out of two four-story buildings here in the Philips Silicon Valley Center at 1000 W. Maude Ave.
SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FL-The development firm that struck gold years ago when it turned several hundred acres of northeast Miami-Dade swampland into the affluent Aventura community is bringing its act to this up-and-coming town between Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
PURCHASE, NY-The 15,000-sf center, a joint effort between the college and Long Island University, is being underwritten by LIU. Both schools will share the space but operate independently.