Downtown Lancaster Movie Theater at Hotel Brunswick

Advanced Media Group Press Release

December 31, 2007 – Lancaster, PA – The Advanced Media Group has executed an agreemen (click to view) with a local sound company, Woodcrest Audio, to develop a formal proposal for the Downtown Lancaster Movie Theater at Hotel Brunswick. The agreement was executed on December 18, 2007 with Woodcrest Audio to develop the sound and projection budget items for the theater. Roger Fitzwater, Jr., owner of Woodcrest Audio toured the vacant movie theater at Hotel Brunswick and is providing expertise to The Advanced Media Group that also includes sound and stage specifications for a possible music venue. The theater would be converted combining the two theaters for live music performances. A movable partition between the two 450 seat theaters is also being designed.

The Advanced Media Group hopes to have a variety of options and alternatives completed in the proposal within the next 30 days. The Advanced Media Group has already solicited the help of local state representatives in the hopes of securing grants for the venture. Local downtown merchants, shoppers, and business leaders have all expressed enthusiasm to finally bring a movie theater back to Downtown Lancaster. The last movie theater operating in downtown Lancaster was located in Hotel Brunswick and closed its doors in 1995. The last movie theater to operate in Downtown Lancaster was the Pacific Theater, located at the Red Rose Transit Station on Queen Street. It closed in 2000. In 1995 business and community leaders proposed an $8 million dollar Discovery Center featuring a large IMAX theater for the old Watt & Shand site at Penn Square. However, the Lancaster Convention Center is now under construction at the same location. An IMAX theater was also part of the Hunter Proposal for Lancaster Square, but the County of Lancaster chose instead to use the building at 150 North Queen Street for it’s own offices. Not so many years ago as many as 4 separate theaters operated at the same time in Downtown Lancaster.

Woodcrest Audio provides sound, engineering and recording for local musicians, including live performances by the hot local band the “SCREAMIN Daisys”. Woodcrest Audio also provides the sound and engineering for all of the stages at the summer long Renaissance Fair.

Advanced Media Group has been in discussions with the owners of Hotel Brunswick for almost two years. The Advanced Media Group is also in discussions to lease the storefront property at Queen and Chestnut Streets for the UPS Copy Store or Fedex/Kinkos self-service copy, graphics, shipping, and records management facility. The storefront property contains a walk in sealed bank vault that would be used for a secure facility to store digital media for clients and customers that require off-site records to be maintained for safekeeping. A records scanning and digital conversion department would be also included in the new venture for “paperless office” projects.

Advanced Media Group has had preliminary discussions with a major Harrisburg company to become a joint venture partner. The company currently services the Lancaster County area, and is interested in the secure storage facility. In 1990 the Advanced Media Group, Ltd. Developed a prototype for the legal industry that used state of the art search and retrieval technologies to manage large complex civil litigation cases on CD-ROM called the “AMG Legal Systems. Advanced Media Group was a leading provider of digital and information technologies during the start of the CD-ROM era. Advanced Media Group was formed during it’s joint venture and consulting project for the former American Helix Technology Corporation and High Industries in the late ’80’s. The services provided would complete with companies like Docuscan USA of York, PA.

For more information on Advance Media Group visit the website: www.amgglobalentertainmentgroup.com.

For more information on Advanced Media Group’s Downtown Lancaster projects visit: www.advancedmediagroup.wordpress.com.

The Advanced Media Group wishes everyone a very Happy and Prosperous New Year.