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The Grape Road succession: three generations of Mishawaka screens

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1979–PRESENT · BOUNDARY: THE SUCCESSION IS MISHAWAKA'S WHOLE, DATED GENERATION BY GENERATION

The succession in dated generations, every generation's opening and closing line stated — on Mishawaka ground: Generation I, the mall three (1979). University Park Mall opened 14 March 1979 at 6501 Grape Road with a three-screen movie theater among its original tenants, operated by General Cinema; Cinema Treasures carries it as the University Mall West, Mishawaka, closed, 3 screens. Its closing line stands in the mall's record in two unmerged tellings: the mall history dates the removal of the movie theater to 2000, while the mall's 45th-anniversary account dates a 62,000-square-foot food court built at the former General Cinema entrance to 1996 — both printed as they stand. Generation II, the General Cinema six (1986). General Cinema built a second complex with six screens outside the mall in 1986, at 6424 Grape Road; it passed to Cinemark as the Cinemark Movies 6 — Cinema Treasures lists it closed, 6 screens, among the houses previously operated by General Cinema — and its closing line is early spring 2016, in the review record, the building leveled after. Generation III, the Movies 14. The corridor's present house is the Cinemark Movies 14 at 910 West Edison Road, Mishawaka — fourteen screens, still operating in November 2026, the screen this town's picture-goers drive to. No generation of the succession stands on Osceola ground or in Osceola's corridor within the town line, and no mall stands in the record told for this town; the succession is printed here at boundary size because it is the multiplex history of the audience this section is about, and it is Mishawaka's to own whole.

From the University Park Mall record (opened 14 March 1979; the three-screen theater among the original tenants; General Cinema's six-screen complex built outside the mall in 1986; the theater's removal dated 2000 — against the mall's 45th-anniversary account in GIANT fm, 14 March 2024, dating the food court at the former General Cinema entrance to 1996, printed unmerged); Cinema Treasures (University Mall West, Mishawaka, closed, 3 screens; Cinemark Movies 6, Mishawaka, closed, 6 screens, previously operated by General Cinema Corp.); the Cinemark Movies 6 review record (6424 Grape Rd; closed early spring 2016); the Cinemark Movies 14 record (910 W. Edison Rd, Mishawaka; operating November 2026).

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Source: The Grape Road succession: three generations of Mishawaka screens, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/theaters/grape-road-succession-at-boundary-size-three-generations-of/