{"id":25709,"date":"2025-04-28T14:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T18:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=25709"},"modified":"2025-04-28T14:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T18:49:07","slug":"decatur-theater-compliance-noted-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/decatur-theater-compliance-noted-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur theater compliance noted, approved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of Decatur&#8217;s great business success stories received strong support from city council at its recent meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Council approved a CF-1 form for ABCinema, the form having to do with a couple of tax abatements previously awarded the downtown theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CF-1 is a form businesses which receive a tax abatement must fill out each year to demonstrate how they have complied with what they vowed to do in order to receive the abatement(s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Corey-Affolder-at-council.jpg?resize=640%2C491&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Corey-Affolder-at-council.jpg?w=757&amp;ssl=1 757w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Corey-Affolder-at-council.jpg?resize=300%2C230&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Corey Affolder at council meeting.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Abatements for real property and for equipment were awarded when the theater expanded into the adjacent building to its west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two original abatements, given when the theater opened, have expired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABCinema, owned by Corey and Barb Affolder and their family, opened nearly eight years on Monroe St. downtown. Its success story continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe had over 3,000 people the last three weekends,\u201d Corey Affolder told council on April 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABCinema now has 24 full- and part-time employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com One of Decatur&#8217;s great business success stories received strong support from city council at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-25709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25711,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25709\/revisions\/25711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}