Alamo Drafthouse Cinema may soon be building a new facility in the SEA District in Corpus Christi. A letter of intent was signed Wednesday stating the cinema-eatery chain's intent to build at the southwest corner of Tancahua and Brewster streets, across from the Brewster Street Ice House. That's a block from Whataburger Field.
The facility should open sometime in 2015 says the Corpus Christi Convention and Visitors Bureau.
The letter of intent doesn't mean it's so, however. In 2009, the company signed franchise agreements that would have brought the theater to Corpus Christi and three other cities in Texas. It never happened.
Headquartered in its birth city of Austin, the Alamo Drafthouse has 26 theaters nationwide. Sixteen are in Texas. The movie complex sells beer and entrees which are served to patrons as they watch first-run movies. Tables are situated between the seats.
The announcement comes on the heels of a contentious public hearing before the Corpus Christi city council Tuesday concerning a similar entertainment facility proposed near Kings Crossing Subdivision at S. Staples Street and Yorktown Blvd.
Opponents of Movies and More, which includes plans for an arcade and bowling alley along with the theater and restaurant, object to beer sales and increased traffic in the area. The city council voted to rezone the site from residential to commercial after the public hearing. The hearing included an equal number of proponents for the facility.
A second vote is needed to make the rezoning official. The complex is expected to open in the summer of 2015 — perhaps in time to compete with Alamo Drafthouse!
