The city will now have to make do with a $300 million Family Entertainment Center at Penn's Landing on the Delaware River, featuring a children's museum, an 18-screen multiplex cinema, restaurants and a wide range of shops.
The base, which the architects refer to as the building's bustle, is a seventeen-story-high box that contains a thirteen-screen multiplex, stores, restaurants, and eight floors of hotel rooms.
Lincoln Center, whatever you may think of it, jump-started the revival of the Upper West Side; if Moses hadn't pushed it through, there is little chance that the high-rise condominiums, multiplex theatres, restaurants, and stores that now fill the neighborhood could have sprung up when they did.
The 180,000-square-foot building at the shopping center, which is owned by J. D. Carlisle Development of Manhattan, was originally intended to include a supermarket, multiplex theater, restaurant and retail tenants.
A voracious appetite for consumer goods, coupled with easy access to credit, prompts shoppers to jam air-conditioned suburban malls that feature U.S. chain stores, fast-food restaurants, and multiplex cinemas.
It is on a 23-acre site where there are two restaurants and a multiplex theater.
In addition, there would be a 76,000-square-foot multiplex cinema, 100,000 square feet of restaurants and 260,000 square feet of retail space.
The property soon became home to a Starbucks, Goldstein's Bagels, Chinese and Italian restaurants and a United Artists Theaters multiplex.
These horizontal parabuildings should be designed to accommodate a variety of programs, as needed: shopping malls, multiplexes, boutique hotels, places of worship, offices, restaurants and night clubs, as well as new terminals for nominal "airlines".
The aquarium, home to 11,000 aquatic creatures in a million gallons of water, is the first phase of an entertainment complex called Newport on the Levee, which is expected to include a 3-D Imax theater, a 21-screen multiplex theater and restaurants.
