Schenectady to star as site for new cinema.(Capital Region)

Byline: MIKE GOODWIN Staff Writer

SCHENECTADY - A six-screen cinema to be operated by a New York City entertainment and real estate firm is a key link in a downtown revitalization plan.

Bow Tie Partners will operate the cinema, which will occupy the first two floors of a $10 million, five-story office build ing at the State Street and Broadway corner lot. It is the site of the former Hough building and is now a vacant lot.

The news comes a year after plans to build a larger movie theater elsewhere downtown proved financially impractical and fell through.

The Bow Tie cinema, expected to open by September 2006, is the final major project the Metroplex Development Authority plans to …