EXTERIOR works on a new eight-screen cinema in a town centre are nearly complete.
The outside of the new Reel Cinema on the former Waves site has been designed to blend in with the surrounding Victorian buildings in the planned Northgate/Blackey Moor leisure quarter.
The main structure is designed in a light brown colour to complement the surrounding stone while the upper sections of the cinema in a textured cladding which will be finished in a colour to tone in with the surrounding red brickwork and King George’s Hall.
Some of the outside will also be finished in a pale gold material to complement the adjacent Blackburn Sports and Leisure Centre and Feilden Street Car Park and the college’s Victoria Building.
The £6.5million cinema with underground car park, being paid for by Blackburn with Darwen Council, is due to open next summer.
Cllr Phil Riley, the council’s regeneration boss, said: “It has been very exciting watching the work progress on this fantastic building, and the cladding is now bringing it all together, it looks really impressive.
"The regeneration of the Northgate area is really coming along, and this is right at the centre of it all. It will be great to see it up and running in 2020.”
Barnfield Construction were selected as construction partner and started on site in August last year.
The 2,400 square metre single storey cinema includes cafes and a dessert bar.
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