One of the two long-awaited Madison Avenue businesses, a coffee shop run by Tierra Farm, will open this Monday. However, the opening date for the adjacent second business, a movie theater and eatery expected to fill the shuttered Madison Theater, remains unclear.

The coffee shop's opening was delayed for several months due to a dispute between Tierra President Gunther Fishgold and the city of Albany over the installation of a grease trap. Fishgold said that the trap was unnecessary at the location, but he recently installed it and squared away the shop's opening.

Construction is still underway on the interior of the Madison Theater next door, where the up-start theater company, Cosmic Cinemas, plans to offer high-end food and alcoholic beverages to moviegoers at their seats.

Fishgold said that interior construction has progressed in the theater, but he guessed the cinema's opening was likely "months out."

"There's still a ton to do," Fishgold said.

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Cosmic opened a theater at Fairview Plaza in downtown Hudson last November, but the opening date for the Madison Theater has been pushed back since last fall, month after month, with little explanation from Cosmic, or the real estate firm brokering the deal.

The Colonie-based Trinity Realty Group bought the Madison Theater for $525,000 last April from Tierra, the Columbia County fruit-and-nut wholesaler that had owned the Madison and its adjoining coffee shop since 2013.

Kevin Parisi, a TRG real estate broker, negotiated the deal to lease the Madison and the Fairview Plaza theaters to Cosmic, and is also leasing the coffee shop space to Tierra.

Parisi did not respond to request for comment for this story, but has been interviewed by the Albany Business Review multiple times since last September, when he first said the theater's opening would be "just a little bit delayed."

He said then that the theater could be open sometime around Thanksgiving 2018.

Cosmic CEO Terrell Braly, the former head of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas, told the Times Union last March that he was shooting for a summer 2018 opening after a renovation and upgrades including digital projectors and rocker seats.

While Cosmic Cinemas currently holds a liquor license for its Hudson movie theater, it holds no such license at the Madison Theater location — a sign further delays may be likely.

But Fishgold said next week would be a soft-opening for the coffee shop, which he said will be offering free coffee for customers to welcome them to new Pine Hills neighborhood business.

"We just want to get open, get moving," Fishgold said.