Village at the Peaks Tenants Whole Foods, Sam’s Club, Regal Cinemas, Wyatt’s Wine & Spirits, The Sports Authority, Gold’s Gym, Party City, Chuck & Don’s Pet Food and Supplies, Parry’s Pizza, Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar, The Melt, Pie Five, Culver’s, Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, Village Inn, Jersey Mike’s, Visionworks, Supercuts, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Luxury Nails and Spa, Ripple Effect, Pacific Dental, Spavia Day Spa, Samuels Jewelers.

Lights, camera, action!

The big news in Longmont Thursday was that the much-anticipated 12-screen Regal Cinemas will open its doors and turn on its projectors in November.

The developer of the new Village at the Peaks in Longmont announced that five businesses will open their doors for the public next month. Other openings include Wyatt’s Wine and Spirits, Sports Authority, Gold’s Gym and Ripple Effect, a martial arts studio.

“We are so pleased to announce the first set of store openings for Village at the Peaks, including the new state-of-the-art Regal Cinemas, the community’s most requested merchant in our new project,” said Allen Ginsborg, managing director and principal of NewMark Merrill Mountain States in a statement.

Each of the five openings will take place between early and late November, he said. There are 25 tenants at the shopping center, meaning the property is 85 percent leased.

Construction of the new shopping center began last summer, after the demolition of the former Twin Peaks Mall, which had opened in 1985 and survived for 29 years.

“If folks haven’t seen the progress taking place at Village at the Peaks, I think they’ll be impressed,” said assistant city manager Shawn Lewis. “I’m excited about this first round of store openings, and personally thrilled that I won’t have to drive to Broomfield to watch a movie anymore.”

Longmont City Council member Polly Christensen was also pleased to hear the news, notably in terms of the silver screen.

“It is good news that these businesses are opening on time. We hope to see the rest of the businesses open shortly after,” Christensen said. “I will be especially happy to be able to go to the movies in my own city again.”

The 480,000 square-foot retail village is expected to pump a lot more tax revenue into the city, and create hundreds of jobs.

“For 2016 we projected sales tax of $2.156 million,” said Jim Golden, director of finance for the city. “I expect that is a conservative estimate.”

“This represents a culmination of several years of hard work between the city and the developer as part of a public – private partnership and we look forward to future openings,” said David Starnes, Longmont’s redevelopment and revitalization manager.

The total cost of the project is estimated to run about $190 million once completed.

“We look forward to announcing more openings for later this year and early 2016, including Whole Foods, which is on track to open as planned in late January,” developer Ginsborg said.

Sam’s Club, located at the northeast corner of the complex, was the last to break ground and is slated to open in the first half of 2016.

A complete schedule of opening dates will eventually be posted on the project web site, villageatthepeaks.com.

Vince Winkel: 303-684-5291, winkelv@times-call.com or twitter.com/vincewinkel