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Please help us by signing this petition to prevent another liquor store from opening in this troubled location on the northeast corner of Grand River and Lahser.
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File this under "We just can't have anything nice around here"
The same thing happened to the Fox about 20 years ago.

Maybe they found a singer who could count finally.

Looking back, the 1975 UA auction was the best possible thing for the treasures of that theatre. They all went to new, good homes while they still were perfectly intact. Had they been left in the...

Richard-I’ve been active in saving a few theatres, I know the business, I know the process. What you speak of, this subsidized mothballing of commercial structures flies in the face of corporate and...

As Bob has taken the time to write this well thought post I thought I’d weigh in with some hard facts about the movie theatre business. Bob and I have worked in preservation and have something of a...

I was first in the UA in January of 1975, just before the Dumochelle auction. Everything was still in place. The carved lobby furniture, the light fixtures, projectors, the Wurlitzer pipe organ. It...

I'd like to remind Mayor Duggan that the Packard Plant has not "abandoned since 1958". Studebaker-Packard Corporation ceased car production there in September of 1954, but used portions of the...

Yep.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/united-states-v-wade-streeter-docket-19-cr-20794

Mr. Tug Boat Captain will be a guest of the federal penitentiary for the next 21 years.
Heinous crime, gonna do time.

I’m on the BOD of the Detroit Theatre Organ Society. We are forming a partnership to include Cinema Detroit. All of their shows will be one weekend a month, leaving us with the remaining 3 weekends...

FWIW-Cinema Detroit will be moving operations to the Senate Theatre on Michigan & Livernois soon. Watch this space!

FWIW-Cinema Detroit will be moving operations to the Senate Theatre on Michigan & Livernois soon. Watch this space!

Sorry to chime in late. I knew Fred Hermes, he was a great guy. The Michigan Theatre Wurlitzer is still in his home in Racine, his son Fred Jr. is restoring the actions at present.
A correction,...

The Redford has every technical capability that the UA had, the only thing the UA had that the Redford does not is the curved screen. When we first took over the Redford it had a semi-curved screen,...

Here since 2005. Largely inactive now.

You want to save a theater? The Bonstelle is being cut loose from WSU’s pocket book. It is intact, functional, the basement has never been flooded past the stage floor. It’s a turn-key operation. Get...

What do you do with it once it’s restored? How will it cover its monthly overhead? How would enabling another theater affect the bottom line of the currently operating live theaters downtown?

No, I didn’t get booted.

1969, my folks moved us from 7 mile/Evergreen to North east Livonia, 8 mile/Middlebelt.

The Detroit house was paid for, dad satisfied his 20 year GI bill loan two years earlier.
He was doing...

The Redford serves this market, in the city's NW corner.

The renovation from an industrial space into a modern office facility was done about 20 years ago by a former partner of my former employer's. They had a company that worked with audio, they made a...

Rest in Peace John.

The cost of safety is the cost of safety, and it is going to make the rent more expensive. I feel sorry for the artists, but the city can't have a situation like this on their hands. Things have...

I don't predict it will be around for long. Just wasn't that funny, and when they started trying to break the glass in the office I knew that they were thin on material. Love the local angle, but...