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Ward Parkway Center is the location of the first modern movie multiplex, with its original two screens (since renovated and expanded to 14 screens) still operated by AMC Theatres. Originally a tiny two-screen theater located near Montgomery Ward , later expanded to the new complex.
In 1961, after Ed died, Stanley took control of Durwood Theatres, a small ten-theatre chain. With an interstate planned around Kansas City, Durwood looked to sites outside downtown and acquired two sites at a shopping center on Kansas City's Ward Parkway to build a 700-seat theater.
“Several” gunshots were fired about 6:45 p.m. inside the Ward Parkway mall, near the AMC movie theater, police said. Businesses put lockdown measures in place until an all-clear was given.
In 1963 AMC Theatres opened the two-screen Parkway Twin at the Ward Parkway Shopping Center in Kansas City, a concept which company president Stanley Durwood later claimed to have come up with in 1962, realizing he could double the revenue of a single theater "by adding a second screen and still operate with the same size staff".
The final slate of films includes “Barbie,” “Oppenheimer” and “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” plus the newly released “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
The Leawood-based CEO said he was a victim of a catfishing blackmail plot.
Ward Parkway was created as part of developer J.C. Nichols's overall plans for the Country Club District.Desiring a boulevard that would exceed the aesthetic value of all other streets in Kansas City, Nichols hired landscape architect George Kessler, who had designed several other boulevards, parks, and neighborhoods throughout Kansas City, Missouri, including Hyde Park. [2]
AMC Theatres, a movie theater chain (Leawood, Kansas) Andrews McMeel Universal, a syndication and publication company which represents media/entertainment features such as Dear Abby, Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes and Doonesbury; Applebee's, a restaurant chain (Lenexa, Kansas), relocated to Glendale, California in 2015