Opening a new business in the middle of a pandemic might seem risky at best, foolhardy at worst. But Mike Hazlett, who launched the independent Green Light Cinema in October, believes in his product – an intimate, all-digital movie house with a 17x8 screen dedicated to art films, classics and indies – and he believes the audience is out there. So, Covid or no Covid, if you build it, they will come, right?
In the beginning, Hazlett says, “We knew that it was going to be a huge left. There wasn’t any expectation that we were going to be talking any kind of ticket sales. And that came true!”
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