The auto-corridor big screen, and the cinema inside the brewery

1853–2026

Both classes were tested for this ground and both belong to Mishawaka; they are boundary-told from Mishawaka's record, as the audit directs. The auto corridor's big single screen is the Town & Country Theatre, 2340 North Hickory Road, Mishawaka: opened July 2, 1970, for ABC Theatres, a very large single-screen house of about 1,078 seats in glass, chrome, and contemporary carpet, its screen among the largest of its day, equipped with magnetic-track stereo and xenon projection and a grand drape that kept the screen hidden until the film began. It was the last of the single-screen suburban palaces; the multiplex era cut it down — later operated by Kerasotes, subdivided from its single auditorium — and it closed in 2000, the year the mall three-screen also closed. It stood on Mishawaka's McKinley corridor, served the same east-county audience as this ground, and was never in the CDP. The cinema inside another industry's building is the 100 Center Cinema: the Kamm & Schellinger Brewery at 100 Center Street, Mishawaka — brewery buildings from 1853 onward, brewing ended about 1951 — was converted in 1968 into the 100 Center entertainment and retail complex, with a cinema inside the brewery as one of its founding uses. The cinema's documented course runs at least to the Tribune's February 15, 2002 notice, "100 Center Cinema reopens with classics"; the complex itself, long in decline, is now the object of a $41.5 million redevelopment carried by a $5.64 million READI grant announced in December 2024 — shops, restaurants, a live-music venue, and apartments in the brewery's shell. For this ground the test's answer is structural: Granger's industry built breweries of its own kind — Bare Hands, a craft taproom in an industrial court — but no cinema has ever been installed inside another industry's building in the CDP, and the corridor's specimen is Mishawaka's brewery, two miles and one city line away.

From Cinema Treasures and The BigScreen Cinema Guide (Town & Country: opened July 2, 1970; about 1,078 seats; ABC Theatres; closed 2000); the Kamm and Schellinger Brewery record (brewery 1853–c.1951; the 100 Center conversion, 1968, cinema included; the Tribune, February 15, 2002); the City of Mishawaka, December 2024 (the READI redevelopment).