New in Douglas County: Parker Gets a Serious Movie Theater, a Butcher, and the Answer to the Wild Goose Question

Edition two of our weekly openings-and-closings tracker, and Parker owns this one: a ten-screen theater rebirth, a fifth-generation butcher, a pickleball restaurant on the drawing board, and the answer to what happens to the Wide Goose building. Plus a Sedalia magic house, the quiet end of a Park Meadows original, and a Castle Pines project that keeps getting bigger. As always: verified first, hedged where it is not, and the tip line is on the About page.

The big one: Emagine Parker

The former AMC Classic Twenty Mile 10 reopened July 1 as Emagine Parker, the Michigan chain's first Colorado location, and this is not a coat of paint. The Italian cinema-design firm DeCa Designs gave each of the ten auditoriums its own Colorado-landscape theme, including one wrapped in Red Rocks imagery, plus two large-format EMX screens, Dolby Atmos, heated recliners, a full bar, and in-house pizza. Adult matinees run about $10.95, which undercuts most of the metro's premium rooms. Parker has needed a real theater since the AMC faded; it got a genuinely ambitious one.

Also open

Rugby Scott Ranch Provisions, Parker. A fifth-generation ranching family (est. 1884, with ranches in Colorado, Kansas, and North Dakota) opened its second butcher shop in the old Chamber building on Mainstreet in early July: American Wagyu and Black Angus cut in-house, plus heritage pork. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays, which is how you know the meat is the point.

Black Rock Coffee Bar, Parker. The drive-thru chain's second Parker location in three months opened June 29 at Parker and Stroh. Nineteen Colorado stores and now a NASDAQ ticker; Parker is apparently a growth market.

Magic Manor, Sedalia. The magicians behind Castle Rock's Theatre of Dreams moved their 23-year-old show into the historic Gabriel's building and rebranded it Magic Manor: a 90-seat magic house with close-up magic, comedy, and live music. Between this and Riot BBQ landing at Wide Open Saloon last month, Sedalia, population roughly 200, is quietly having the best year of any town in the county.

Izumi Sushi, Castle Rock. One we missed in edition one: quietly open on Third Street downtown since mid-May, with never-frozen fish, bluefin-only tuna, and real crab in the California rolls, claims you do not usually hear within a mile of an interstate. Still no official grand opening; go before it gets one.

Coming soon

JP's Sports Bar, Parker. The answer to a question Parker has been asking since February, when Wild Goose Saloon closed after co-owner Chris Dellinger's cancer diagnosis and the community threw a benefit festival in his honor. A new LLC filed with the state on June 2, and coming-soon signage is up on Pikes Peak Drive. No opening date yet, and big shoes: the Goose was Parker's live-music room.

Pick N Tap Co., Parker. In permits: a restaurant-taproom stacked with convertible indoor pickleball and badminton courts, golf simulators, and league darts near Chambers and Double Angel. Parker is simultaneously building 17 public pickleball courts at Salisbury Park, so the town has apparently chosen its personality.

Life Time Castle Pines. Two stories and 102,000 square feet, reportedly ahead of schedule and opening late this year. For a city of eleven thousand, a club with an outdoor pool, spa, café, and 300 employees is a genuinely outsized bet, and the same development corridor has a 510-square-foot 7 Brew coffee drive-thru starting construction this summer.

Still no dates: Journeys and Peak Pizza at the Outlets remain "summer 2026" with no announced openings; the Chicken Salad Chick project at The Meadows, in the works since 2023, finally appears to have dirt moving.

Closed

Earls Kitchen + Bar, Park Meadows. One of the mall's original sit-down anchors quietly served its last plates this spring; the trade press only just logged it, and the send-off was billed, corporately, as a "retirement." Decades at that corner. The space is one of the most visible restaurant vacancies in the county now, and we will track what takes it.

Toastique, Highlands Ranch, from edition one: still no official word, but every platform now lists it closed. We will call it confirmed when someone says it out loud.

That is edition two. Every Monday: what opened, what closed, what is coming, verified. See something we missed? Tell us, and we will run it down.