PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Ericka Conant has lived on Christian Street in South Philly for the last two and a half years, so she’s never known a time when a movie theater was just blocks away in the Riverview Plaza along Columbus Boulevard.
“I was just on Columbus the other day, driving down,” she said. “I looked at it and thought, ‘What an eyesore.’”
Not long after that drive, she stumbled upon an Instagram post advertising that the theater would be reopening in 2026 under new management and with IMAX capabilities…