Although the Cine Capri enjoyed a life span of over 30 years, it was, apparently, in the path of so-called "progress."

Dan Harkins, and his executive vice-president Wayne Kullander, (the inaugural Cine Capri manager), worked with a giant grassroots community effort to save the Cine Capri. And while over 250,000 signature petitions were gathered to that end, their efforts sadly proved to be unsuccessful.  The original landowners regained control of the property, and their plans for a high rise office complex did not include keeping the Cine Capri.

The final engagement was Titanic, and like so many of the blockbusters that had played at the Cine Capri before, it played to overflow crowds to the very end. 

On January 5, 1998, the very last showing of Titanic at the Cine Capri ended with the curtain lowering at 2:12 am., about the same time the real Titanic slipped beneath the waves of the Atlantic. Then, on February 18, 1998, the wreckers came and the beautiful Cine Capri was raised to the ground.

And with its demolition came the next chapter in the life of the Cine Capri.