San Francisco 3D IMAX

[P3D Lawrence Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is from a press release...someone posted they wanted an
excuse to go to San Francisco & IMAX 3D, they will have to wait!  

"Sony Retail Entertainment today marked the start of construction 
on its new retail entertainment center to be located at Yerba 
Buena Gardens in San Francisco.
 
Presiding over the event were The Honorable Willie L. Brown, Jr.,
Mayor of the City of San Francisco....etc, etc, etc.
 
The 350,000 square foot Sony entertainment center will rise up four 
floors from the Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade to become part of 
the 22-acre mixed-use development known as Yerba Buena Gardens. 
Located in San Francisco's revitalized South of Market neighborhood, 
the entertainment center will be adjacent to the Moscone Convention 
Center, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Center for the Arts 
Yerba Buena Gardens and Yerba Buena Gardens Studio of Technology
& the Arts, which is currently under construction. The Sony 
entertainment center is planned for completion in the fall of 1998.
 
Approval for the center was granted on February 6, 1996. Sony Retail 
Entertainment, which oversees and operates the Loews Theatres and
Sony Theatres locations across the country and the development of 
location-based entertainment centers and Sony Style retail stores, will
be the master tenant for the entire center. The project will be built 
by Yerba Buena Retail Partners, a development consortium comprised of 
Millennium Partners of New York and WDG Ventures, Inc. of San 
Francisco. Millennium Partners is a New York-based real estate 
development firm which was instrumental in developing the Sony 
Theatres Lincoln Square movie theatre complex and adjacent properties 
in New York City.
 
Features of the entertainment center will be....
--The 3D Sony IMAX(R)Theatre
--"Gateway," the spectacular entrance area
--The Discovery Channel Destination flagship store
--The "Where the Wild Things Are" interactive play area
--"The Night Kitchen" food service area
--The "Mammoth Institute of Technology" learning & entertainment 
  attraction
--The "Open Reality Lab" interactive adventure arcade
--"Taste of San Francisco"
--Creative new restaurants and retail outlets
--Venues for live performance"           

Lawrence
kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxx


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