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A movie theater has been scheduled to open in the spring of 2012 at Westfield Countryside mall in Clearwater.
Cobb Theatres and Westfield Countryside said Cobb Countryside 12 would be built on the southwest corner of Westfield Countryside.
“City officials worked hand in hand with Westfield and Cobb, both renowned leaders in their respective industries, to bring this project from the drawing table to the onset of construction,” Mayor Frank V. Hibbard said in a statement. “This announcement represents a successful collaboration which will benefit the entire community for years to come.”
Plans for the theater follow a recently completed $12 million reinvestment of Westfield Countryside. Westfield Group (ASX: WDC) owns Westfield Countryside. The company, headquartered in Australia, has a portfolio of 55 shopping centers in the United States.
Cobb Theatres, based in Birmingham, Ala., operates 193 screens at 14 locations throughout the Southeastern United States.
The new theater in Clearwater will incorporate the latest technology into Cobb’s next generation design, a release said. Its 12 auditoriums will have more than 2,000 seats with stadium seating.
The theater will have Rear Window Captioning (pictured) that emits a caption that hearing-impaired moviegoers can pick up with a device that slips into their cup holder as well as a descriptive video service for moviegoers who are sight-impaired.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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