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The owner of the Skyline Cinema 8 in Dillon says he has no interest in selling his property to a developer who just last week discussed building workforce housing there during a meeting with the town council.
Brian Mitchell, who owns Mitchell Theaters with 15 locations across seven states, said on Tuesday, Nov. 14, that he was surprised to learn that his business’s Summit County location had been discussed at the Dillon Town Council meeting a week earlier.
Mitchell said developer Jake Porritt, who has pitched a major redevelopment of the Dillon town core, approached him last year with some of his ideas, but, ultimately, there was nothing the cinema owner was interested in being involved with. He said he had not heard from Porritt or his companies, JGJP Dillon LLC and the Porritt Group, in several months.
“We wished Jake and the Porritt Group the best of luck with their project and have not had any communication with them since,” Mitchell said.
Mitchell Theaters has no plans to sell the Skyline Cinema property to Porritt or be a part of the redevelopment, Mitchell said. Although the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent Hollywood strikes have presented “some interesting challenges,” he said the theater is doing just fine and continues to make upgrades, including plans to install electric vehicle chargers in the parking lot.
