ASHEVILLE — Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, a Texas-based theater chain, will join the Asheville Mall as part of an estimated $45 million redevelopment project to modernize the facility with restaurants and high-density residential housing, its developer said in a recent earnings report.

In the report, developer Seritage Growth Properties said Alamo will be in the space formerly occupied by a Sears store and auto center, which closed in July. It would join the mall amid the New York-based developer's major reimagining of the property that is planned to include new retail stores, restaurants and 204 multifamily housing units in addition to the 10-screen multiplex movie theater.

Asked about its inclusion in the Seritage report Tuesday, an Alamo spokesperson said the company has "no information to share at this time."

Alamo declined comment last year when a now-deleted plan was posted on the mall's ownership group's website showing the theater chain as a future tenant.

If it comes to fruition, it would be Alamo's second North Carolina location after opening its first last year in Raleigh.

Alamo has nearly 50 theaters operating or in development in Texas, New York, Virginia, Arizona and Nebraska, among others, its website shows. Asheville is not among the locations listed on its website.

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The mall redevelopment plan was submitted to the city last year by Seritage through a subsidiary, Seritage SRC Finance LLC, based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Seritage is a publicly traded company that owns 237 retail properties nationally, or about 37.5 million square feet of gross leasable area, according to its most recent earnings report released in November.

The report is posted below in its entirety.

Seritage said it was formed in 2015 to "unlock the underlying real estate value" of Sears property sites after acquiring 235 Sears- and Kmart-branded stores — including Asheville's now-shuttered location — from Sears Holdings Corp. Under that agreement, Seritage agreed to lease back properties to Sears with the option to recapture the space occupied by the store and auto center.

In recent years, Sears Holdings has closed hundreds of Sears and Kmart stores as sales have declined nationwide. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October.

As of Sept. 30, Seritage's redevelopment program, which targets many ex-Sears properties, includes 94 projects representing more than $1.4 billion in capital investment, its report shows. Its Asheville project is one of 21 projects of $20 million or more.

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The Asheville Mall redevelopment effort was recommended for approval with conditions this year by the city's Technical Review Committee. Chris Collins, the city's site planning and development division manager, said its next step for a conditional zoning review is a public hearing before heading to the Planning and Zoning Commission.

Construction on the mall is slated to begin in early 2019 with the project slated to finish in 2020, Seritage reported in its recent filing. But Collins said the project also requires City Council approval to move ahead, and it is not yet known when that could happen.

"While I can confirm that the applicant has been in conversations with staff regarding the review, we do not have any information about the construction timeline for this project," Collins said.