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Abandoned movie theater complex in Bonita to be reopened as cinema cafe

* By TARA E. McLAUGHLIN

BONITA SPRINGS — It’s cinema, the sequel.

Four months after Regal Stadium 12 shuttered its doors in Bonita Springs, a new movie theater has announced plans for a return to the big screen in full Hollywood style, with more bells and more whistles.

Cinema Café is expected to open in February in The Prado at Spring Creek on U.S. 41, featuring 12 screens, leather seats, beer and wine service, a grill menu and waiter service.

“The Prado Cinema Café will bring a long overdue, upgraded cinema experience with value-added services to the Lee County area, but at affordable, everyday prices,” said Doug Olson, sales and leasing specialist for LandQwest Commercial, who secured the deal.

The news is breathing hope into a shopping center plagued with vacancies.

Half of The Prado’s 24 storefronts display leasing signs and a couple of the stand-alone stores in the plaza also are closed or going out of business.

“It’ll definitely be positive for this whole strip,” said Michael Cirella, owner of Cirella’s Italian bistro and sushi bar.

Regal’s departure in June highlighted for him just how much the foot traffic to the theater benefited his business, especially during the off season.

“We lost that before-movie diner or after-movie diner,” Cirella said.

Linda Potter, a Bonita Bay resident who lives one stoplight away from the theater, said she always looked forward to dining at Cirella’s and walking down to the theater to take in a flick.

Spending the summer in Pittsburgh, Potter had heard before she returned to Bonita Springs this month that Regal closed and was thrilled to hear movies were making a comeback.

“I would love to have the theater come back,” she said as she shopped a few doors down at Wilford & Lee Home Accents. “It’s been sad driving around and seeing all of the stores that have closed.”

Kate Barnhart, manager of the local home goods store, said the Wilford & Lee didn’t sell much to moviegoers who often browsed the colorful store’s glassware and displays. But she was hopeful the store made an impression and brought them back later.

She said a cinema returning to one of the anchor spaces could prove to other tenants that The Prado is still worth investing in.

“The more stores we can get, the more prospects we can also get,” Barnhart said.

Olson said there are plans to make those prospects a reality.

“We are currently working with several more entertainment-oriented retailers and restaurants to join them,” he said. “Our goal is to make The Prado a family entertainment hub for south Lee and north Collier counties.”

Barnhart said it’s been difficult hanging on while so many businesses have left, but she’s positive that the future is brighter, and Cinema Café is a step in the right direction.

“It’s going to get better,” she said. “It can’t get any worse.”

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10 things you need to know about red-light running cameras in Collier County

■ Brent Batten answers more red-light camera questions including how much money the county is making on them.

NAPLES ― Red light running cameras are nabbing thousands of drivers across Collier County. Before you get caught, here are 10 things to know about red light cameras.

1. How do they work?

The cameras take three photos and a 12-second video of your vehicle, which officials review before issuing a citation.

2. Who decides when to issue a citation?

The cameras are operated by an outside vendor, American Traffic Solutions, based in Scottsdale, Ariz. ATS flags potential violations for the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, which ultimately decides what merits a citation.

3. What happens if you get a citation?

If you get a citation, it will cost you $62.50 for the first one, $75 for a second and $100 for a third offense. Think that’s expensive? Collier County Commissioners recently voted to reduce the fines from $125 a piece. If you received a citation before the fine change, you will not receive a refund.

4. How do you contest a citation?

If you want to contest a citation, you may do so at a special hearing. But, keep in mind, if your citation is not dismissed, you will face an additional $50 fee for contesting it.

5. What if you get a citation in the mail, but you weren’t driving the car?

It is important to note the cameras take photos of the vehicle, not the driver. Using the license plate information, citations are issued to the vehicle’s owner.

6. Is running through a red light treated the same as prematurely turning right on red?

Running through a red light is treated the same as prematurely turning right on red. Drivers will receive the same citation for both circumstances.

7. Just how long is the traffic light yellow?

The length of time a traffic light is yellow varies from intersection to intersection across the county, but it will be yellow for a minimum of 4 seconds.

8. How many people are receiving citations?

Thousands of drivers in Collier County have already received citations. There were 3,730 citations issued in August and 2,138 in September.

9. Where are the cameras?

As you drive around the county, there are currently 12 red-light running cameras. They are located heading eastbound and westbound at Pine Ridge and Airport-Pulling roads, northbound on Airport-Pulling Road and Davis Boulevard, eastbound and westbound at Pine Ridge and Livingston roads, northbound and eastbound at Airport-Pulling and Immokalee roads, northbound

and eastbound at Collier Boulevard and Golden Gate Parkway, eastbound at Immokalee and Livingston roads, eastbound at Pine Ridge Road and U.S. 41 and westbound at Vanderbilt Beach Road and U.S. 41.

More cameras will be coming to Collier in the future. The county Transportation Services Division says plans are to add about 12 more cameras within the next year.

10. What about those other cameras above the traffic signals across the county?

If you are wondering about the cameras that look like periscopes located above traffic signals at intersections across the county, those have nothing to do with red-light running. In fact, they are not cameras at all, but sensors that monitor traffic flow. The county’s transportation department also has another type of camera for traffic monitoring, but it is not used to monitor red-light running.

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