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They were once a staple of downtown life: ornate theaters with brightly lit marquees, often billed as movie palaces. But as the flight from the city to the suburbs took hold, the number of downtown movie theaters began to decline in the 1960s and 70s.
Jack Loeks, who owned the Midtown Theater on Pearl Street in Grand Rapids, saw the trend. And now, the company Loeks built is noticing another trend — one that suggests what goes around comes around.
Tuesday, the Grand Rapids City Commission will be asked to sign off on a development agreement that would bring a nine-screen movie theater to downtown Grand Rapids, which would be the first screens downtown in decades.
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