Downtown movie theater closed temporarily after sprinkler system breaks

ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) A trendy, new, downtown St. Louis dine-in movie theater is shut down.

The sprinkler system is the adjacent parking garage froze and sprang a leak, the theater owner said; yet another casualty of last weeks sub-zero deep freeze.

TheMX Theatre on Washington Avenue just marked its first anniversary this weekwhile it was shut down.

A Fox 2 crew got inside Wednesday night. It sure seemed like people could be watching movies.

Still, it was closed for an eighth straight night.

What happened was some of the sprinkler pipes in the garage burst, which shut down the entire sprinkler system for the building, including the movie theater, said Amos Harris of Spinnaker-St. Louis, which owns the theater.

The actual water damage to the theater was minimal. A few well-placed trash cans caught any drips and spared the carpeting. There was a little bubbling paint and hard to see water damage to one screen.

But the theater cannot reopen until the sprinkler system is working again.

Ground floor restaurants like Pi-Pizza and Snarfs Sandwiches re-opened after just a few days. But the theater is on the second floorand the owner says that has apparently made the repair more challenging.

TheMX is Pita Gonzales favorite theater. So much so shes holding a charity fundraiser Friday atSnarfs sandwich shop next door for the Paul Mitchell cosmetology school, where shes a student.

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Downtown movie theater closed temporarily after sprinkler system breaks