A rendering of the future eight-screen movie theater at Interstate 40 and Country Club Road, to be built and managed by B&B Theatres of Salisbury, Mo. The company has 27 multi-screen theaters in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. 

City Council approves rezoning for theater 

A multi-screen movie theater with its promise of improving property values and the city’s flat-lined revenues survived its last hurdle as the El Reno City Council on Tuesday passed a rezoning issue. 

The Council approved the rezoning of 20 acres of agricultural land to commercial restricted, or CR, in an area south of Interstate 40 on Country Club Road.  

CR zoning will allow theaters, shops, restaurants, motels, banks and other similar uses and paves the way for a local group of investors and B&B Theatres of Salisbury, Mo., to build an eight-screen movie theater.  

Owner Ruth Mittelstaedt said she has plans to develop the acreage as “Wind Crossing Development,” a combination of retail shops, walking trails and residential housing, with the theater as the hub. 

“I’m extremely pleased with what happened here tonight. We’ve worked very well with the city. But the more important thing is to see the city moving forward and that pleases me. We’re showing our children that we are looking out for their future,” she said.