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Windward Mall
selects Consolidated
to run cinema

Construction of the 10-screen
complex is expected to be
finished in six months

By Rick Daysog
Star-Bulletin

The owner of Windward Mall has selected Consolidated Amusement Co. to operate a 10-screen theater at the Kaneohe shopping center.

Consolidated recently notified employees that Pauahi Management has picked the theater company as the top bidder for the planned 43,000-square-foot movie complex.

The theaters, which include a 140-stall parking garage, will seat about 2,000 and will occupy the top floor of the former J.C. Penney building.

The first level will be used for retail shops and a new entry for the center.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed and a person familiar with the deal said the two companies are in the process of negotiating a lease.

Construction on the theater already has started and is expected to be completed in the next six months.

A Consolidated executive could not be reached for immediate comment.

Pauahi Management, a for-profit subsidiary of Kamehameha Schools, has been looking to develop a theater at the east end of the shopping center since J.C. Penney Co. shut its 87,500-square-foot department store in 1998.

In August, the mall operator sent out requests for proposals to four theater companies before selecting Consolidated.

The bidders never were publicly identified.

The move comes as Consolidated, a unit of Los Angeles-based Pacific Theatres, is in the midst of a major expansion of its Hawaii operations.

Last year, Consolidated opened the Koolau Stadium 10 at the nearby Temple Valley Shopping Center.

Consolidated also is developing a 16-screen movie complex in Kakaako on land owned by Victoria Ward Ltd.