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Ward Parkway Center is the location of the first modern movie multiplex, with its original two screens (since renovated and expanded to 14 screens) still operated by AMC Theatres. Originally a tiny two-screen theater located near Montgomery Ward , later expanded to the new complex.
“Several” gunshots were fired about 6:45 p.m. inside the Ward Parkway mall, near the AMC movie theater, police said. Businesses put lockdown measures in place until an all-clear was given.
Ward Parkway was created as part of developer J.C. Nichols's overall plans for the Country Club District.Desiring a boulevard that would exceed the aesthetic value of all other streets in Kansas City, Nichols hired landscape architect George Kessler, who had designed several other boulevards, parks, and neighborhoods throughout Kansas City, Missouri, including Hyde Park. [2]
In 1963 AMC Theatres opened the two-screen Parkway Twin at the Ward Parkway Shopping Center in Kansas City, a concept which company president Stanley Durwood later claimed to have come up with in 1962, realizing he could double the revenue of a single theater "by adding a second screen and still operate with the same size staff".
5550 Ward Parkway Near Jury’s home, on the northwest corner of 56th Street and Ward Parkway, a sprawling, six-bedroom, eight-bathroom, Mediterranean style home sits on two gated acres .
One of the people detained after shots were fired at the Ward Parkway Shopping Center Tuesday night had a 9mm handgun that was “warm to the touch,” according to audio from Broadcastify.com
Ward Parkway Center in Kansas City, Missouri had the first multiplex cinema in the United States. Since the 1960s, multiple-screen theaters have become the norm, and many existing venues have been retrofitted so that they have multiple auditoriums. A single foyer area is shared among them.
The screens will go dark for the final time this Sunday at one of Durham’s last remaining movie theaters. The AMC Classic 15 will close Oct. 29, a representative of the company confirmed.