Theater, bowling alley, restaurants premiere at Delray Beach Marketplace

A rendering of Delray Beach Marketplace
A rendering of Delray Beach Marketplace

Today will mark the opening of an entertainment trifecta: bowling, movies and dining, at the Delray Beach Marketplace, the Sun Sentinel reported. The anticipated IMAX theater will premiere as part of the 70,000-square-foot Frank Theatres CineBowl & Grille, on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach.

“It’s a one-stop shop,” Bruce Frank, president and CEO of Frank Entertainment Companies, told the Sun Sentinel. “We had to treat it like a supermarket; had to have everything you want to satisfy your entertainment needs.”

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But experts say that the rare complex that brings different forms of entertainment together rarely succeeds.

“There’s no synergy,” Ken Leonard, of Leonard Associates, a Chicago-based consultant specializing in shopping centers, told the Sun Sentinel. [Sun Sentinel] –Guelda Voien