Victory Park Renaissance

Victory Park is getting a movie theater courtesy of fancy new chain

There may not be a movie theater in downtown Dallas proper, but the area will soon be surrounded by movie options: Victory Park is adding an eight-screen theater from Cinépolis USA. It's the chain's first location in Texas.

Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas-Victory Park will be at the northwest corner of Victory Park Lane and High Market Street, which currently is a surface parking lot. The new theater will be part of a multilevel, mixed-use building that also will include residential space, retail stores and a new 640-space parking garage.

The theater will be around 44,000 square feet; its eight auditoriums will seat around 700 people. Projected to open in 2017, it will feature auditoriums with fully reclining leather seats, state-of-the-art sound and projection technology, and a gourmet menu with in-theater waiter service.

This will be the 13th location for Cinépolis USA, which is owned by the Mexico-based Cinépolis. It currently has seven locations open in California and two in Florida; three more Florida theaters are slated to open soon.

Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas-Victory Park joins Alamo Drafthouse, which announced a new location in the Cedars in July 2014, in offering new movie options close to downtown Dallas.

The new theater is just one of a slew of changes coming to what's being dubbed the "New Victory Park." Recent new tenants include Simply Elegant, Read Between the Lines and Victory Park CrossFit (which opens April 18), plus Jimmy John's and new Buzzbrews.

There also will be a new 250-space parking facility coming to the corner of Victory Avenue and Lamar Street, and a new building being called Victory Center will begin construction in mid-2015 at a location off Victory Avenue.

Rendering of new building coming to Victory Park, which will include the eight-screen Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas-Victory Park.

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Photo courtesy of Cinépolis USA

Rendering of new building coming to Victory Park, which will include the eight-screen Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas-Victory Park.

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Dallas Cowboys News

Metal roof piece at Cowboys' AT&T Stadium in Arlington falls on field

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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A piece of the roof at the home of the Dallas Cowboys fell to the field while the retractable portion of it was being opened at least three hours before a 34-10 loss to Houston on Monday night, officials said.

AT&T Stadium was mostly empty when the incident occurred, and team officials said nobody was injured. The roof was closed without incident about an hour later.

Officials said winds gusting to 30 mph during the day contributed to the incident, which was being reviewed to ensure the roof can be opened safely at some point in the future. The roof hasn’t been opened for a Cowboys game in their $1.2 billion stadium since the 2022 season.

“I know we opened it long before any fans or anybody is in there,” owner Jerry Jones said after the game. “The reason they do that is to make sure everything is working to avoid those kinds of risks if there’s any fans or anybody in here.”

Jones said there wasn’t any risk in going on with the game, which meant a delay or postponement wasn’t a consideration.

“They wouldn’t have done this game, or started this game, had there been any risk at all,” Jones said. “Not only the NFL wouldn’t, but I wouldn’t if there was any risk at all. And there was no risk at all when we started the game.”

The arches that support the roof are nearly 300 feet above the field at their highest point. The 80,000-seat venue opened in 2009.The falling debris came a little more than a week after Dallas receiver CeeDee Lamb said the sun was in his eyes on a throw he didn’t react to in the end zone in a 34-6 loss to Philadelphia.

AT&T Stadium has an unusual east-west alignment from end zone to end zone, as opposed to most venues being north-south. On clear days, the sun shines through the large glass windows on the west side during the first half of games that kick off in the afternoon.

There is usually a call for curtains on the west side of the stadium when the sun becomes an issue, but Jones says he won’t put up curtains. He says both teams have to deal with the sun.

When AT&T Stadium hosted the Super Bowl in 2011, six workers were injured when ice and snow fell from the roof. The event was plagued by a historic ice storm that gripped the Dallas area for days.

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