NOT AFFILIATED WITH CARMEL CINEMA OR THEIR EMPLOYEES** 

- IN COLLABORATION CONCERNED COMMUNITY MEMBERS

 Today on Facebook Carmel Cinema confirmed the dreaded rumor that the theater was closing. While the theater did not explicitly confirm in its post that it was due to the landlord’s refusal to renew its lease, trusted inside sources have received news and confirmed that this is why. We need your help saving our local theater, which is the only theater left in Putnam County and the mid Hudson Valley. It’s the heart of our community and has been for decades. Around a year or two ago, a massive corporate commercial landlord (whose name can be found throughout Carmel) bought up all of our local plazas and across the East Coast, driving out small businesses in the process. This is public information which can be confirmed through a quick search into the companies name. It is common knowledge that their local agent, personally has 23 plazas in the area- ranging from the Shoprite Plaza, Put- Plaza and throughout the greater Danbury area. Him and his corporate leasing company have made the poor decision to not to renew the theater’s lease, despite the fact that their business has been performing the best its been since before Covid. It’s unsure what they want to do with our local theater’s space but we won’t stand for it or support it. We need our theater. It’s one of the last things left in our small town, aside from the bowling alley. The theater is a life line for everyone in Carmel, giving us something to do on rainy days and hot summer evenings. It’s a popular hub every weekend and Tuesday for our children and our senior citizens. It provides school trips and children’s birthday parties. It’s where our senior population, among others, gathers every Tuesday for their $5 deal! Without this theater, the plaza will die for all the restaurants in the plaza depend on the theaters buisness to thrive. If we allow the theater to close, we will be failing our entire community and future generations. 
We have until the end of May to save our local gem and have the lease resigned.

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Contact our Chamber of Commerce, our state assemblymen, state senators, Representative Michael Lawler and Regency Centers and let them know you want this reversed. If they truly stand up for small business, they’d make a stand and fight for our community.