More on movies:
A smart businessman would open a small artsy theater in Middletown that served quality food and drinks. Make it 21 and over only. You could show artsy movies and even some of the quality mainstream films. Sell tickets that are reserved seats. Make them those large, high backed, love seat type things with cocktail tables. If you really want to get fancy, have touch screen ordering for tableside service. Pay by swiping your credit or debit card. Have a small bistro style restaurant attached for creating the dinner & a movie crowd. Give discounted tickets and/or preferred seating to diners who also go to a movie. Use a provincial French bistro style for the café and a beaux-arts Bijou theater style for the theater itself. You’d make a mint. The demographics are shifting upwards very quickly. The number of yuppies staking claims south of the canal is staggering. The market exists; it just takes someone with money (not me) to find a guy with vision (me) to make it happen. I even have the perfect location. Either take the open land on the right side of 896 just past the 299 split. Or, take over the dilapidated theater on Main Street and the adjacent store or two.

(While we’re on the subject of business ideas in Middletown, the man that takes over the now empty bank on Main and turns it into an eatery or pub will do very well.)

NB: I was the one who said the Wilmington needed to develop residential space on the waterfront 5 years ago and everyone said I was daft because nobody in their right mind would want to live there. Naturally, one developer with vision made it happen. He sold hundreds of units for prices north of $300,000 for mid sized townhouses.

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