New Movie Theater in Manteca

 

 

What’s almost as big as Wal-Mart, can seat 1 out of every 20 Manteca residents & is free?

Dennis Wyatt
Managing Editor

You can’t pass this up.

The most cutting edge movie going experience in the entire Northern San Joaquin Valley is yours for free through Thursday.

It would be worth it just to take in the all-digital Kerasotes ShowPlace 16 nestled between two water features that are just as impressive at The Promenade Shops at Orchard Valley located at the Highway 120 Bypass and Union Road.

But toss in a free first run movie, a free small soda, and a free small popcorn and you have the best deal around. A family of four saves $60 on just one outing taking in films such as “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” or “High School Musical: 3.”

Don’t let a fear of crowds scare you off. There’s big interest but this isn’t the pandemonium that accompanied Bass Pro Shops’ first five days of business. The crowds were steady Friday but with 3,186 seats – just over a 20th of Manteca’s population- and no need for anyone to make change, there’s plenty of room and things move quick.

The 16-screen digital projection theater is conducting a soft opening that runs through Thursday, Nov. 6 with 14 first-run movies. Each movie has at least two show times daily with the more popular films – High School Musical 3 and Beverly Hills Chihuahua – being shown on two screens apiece with a minimum of four show times daily. Once the grand opening takes place on Nov. 7, Kerasotes Showplace 16 will run full movie schedules.

The other movies being shown during the week-long sneak preview are Appaloosa, The Secret Life of Bees, Saw V, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, The Haunting of Molly Hartley, Rock n Rolla, Max Payne, Wall•E, Igor, Eagle Eye, The Duchess, and Changeling.

Doors will open 90 minutes before the first matinee performance allowing guests to receive their free tickets. No advance tickets will be available for the special presentations. Exact theater times appear in an ad that is running daily in the Manteca Bulletin and appears on Page B2 of today’s edition.

1 in Every 20 Manteca Homes Sell

1 in every 20 Manteca homes sell 

 

 

Dennis Wyatt
Managing Editor

One in every 20 of all previously owned homes in Manteca have sold since Jan. 1.

It is a torrid sales pace unprecedented in Manteca.

There have been 892 homes that have closed escrow out of the 17,519 single-family homes that existed as of Jan. 1, 2007 in Manteca

The last time 1,000 plus sales were racked up, the Manteca Multiple Listing Service lumped Lathrop, Ripon, Manteca, French Camp, and Escalon sales all into one statistic. Manteca should hit 1,000 sales by itself with ease. There are 233 pending sales that, if all close in the next 30 days, will put the Manteca sales number at 1,135 sales with a month left to go in 2008.

Manteca home sales were at 5 percent of all single-family homes as of Oct. 27. It could hit 6.5 percent by Dec. 1 and establish a record-high 7 percent pace by year’s end.

The five communities previously lumped together – Manteca, Lathrop, Ripon, Escalon, and French Camp – have recorded 1,552 sales so far this year with another 461 deals pending.