Fenton Cinema - Fenton MI

Address: 291 N Alloy Dr
City: Fenton
State: MI
Zip: 48430
County: Genesee
Open: 1985
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Owner History: Diane and Dean Kitchen
Theater Type: Shopping Center - Early Multiplex
Number of visits to this page: 10160
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Source: Flint Journal

The folks who built Fenton Cinema and operated it for nearly two decades have relinquished their control over the eight-screen, independent theater. Dean and Diane Kitchen have sold the building to a circuit from Grand Rapids. The new owner, Jason Lillmars, has theaters in Fremont, Rockford and Whitehall (under the name NorthStar Cinemas). The sale price was not disclosed.

We'll miss the Kitchens, who started Fenton Cinema in 1985 as a twin-screen house. They kept a clean facility that always was responsive to its community. They reacted to community growth by twice expanding the theater, to five screens in 1990 and eight in 1998. The Kitchens formerly owned theaters in Clarkston, Howell and East Tawas as well as Fenton, but they've pulled out of the business altogether with the Fenton sale. "We'd like to thank all the people who have supported us over the years. The people in Fenton and surrounding cities have been great," said Dean Kitchen, whose family has been in the theater business for more than 50 years.

As the article below indicates, there were folks wanting to re-open the theater but none of those efforts came to fruition unfortunately.

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Fenton Cinema - May 2002
May 2002
Fenton Cinema - May 2002
May 2002
Fenton Cinema - May 2002
May 2002
Fenton Cinema - April 2021 Now An Empty Lot
April 2021 Now An Empty Lot
Fenton Cinema - April 2021 Now An Empty Lot
April 2021 Now An Empty Lot
Fenton Cinema - April 2021 Now An Empty Lot
April 2021 Now An Empty Lot
Fenton Cinema - 1988 Aerial
1988 Aerial
Fenton Cinema - 1985 Article On Theater
1985 Article On Theater
Fenton Cinema - 2012 Article On Us-23 Offer
2012 Article On Us-23 Offer
Fenton Cinema - 2013 Article On Sale To Creative Foam
2013 Article On Sale To Creative Foam
Fenton Cinema - Flint Journal Aug 2012
Flint Journal Aug 2012
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