Work being done today on National Theater

**bassab** · April-30-13, 02:00 PM

Equipment has been unloaded and workers are present at the National Theater today. From my untrained eye it appears that they may be working to preserve it [[plastic over windows for example) rather than simply getting ready to tear it down with the parking deck. Name: photo [[4).JPG
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**Honky Tonk** · April-30-13, 02:30 PM

I heard they're turning it into a parking garage.

**Spartan** · April-30-13, 02:44 PM

Looks to me like they're shooting a movie

**Neilr** · April-30-13, 08:20 PM

When I walked by the theater this evening, I asked one of the crew members. He told me that they were filming a made for TV movie, Low Winter Sun. AMC will release it in August.

**esp1986** · April-30-13, 08:53 PM

With Dan Gilbert trying to buy the rest of this block, I think the National Theatre would fit perfectly into his plans. Greektown is the only one of the Detroit casinos without any sort of real performance venue. A renovation of the National would give him that marketable venue within a stone's throw of the casino itself.

**tetsua** · April-30-13, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by Neilr

When I walked by the theater this evening, I asked one of the crew members. He told me that they were filming a made for TV movie, Low Winter Sun. AMC will release it in August.

Not a made for TV movie, it's an entire crime drama based in Detroit. There was a thread about it a few weeks back

**Krawlspace** · May-01-13, 02:00 PM

It's wonderful to see how Mel Washington can generate income off the National by allowing a TV series shoot but couldn't be bothered to put up a damn piece of plywood over the balcony stairwell landing window for the past 4 years! Would it hurt to move a little of that Whittier money over here, Mel?

**Eber Brock Ward** · May-01-13, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by Krawlspace

It's wonderful to see how Mel Washington can generate income off the National by allowing a TV series shoot but couldn't be bothered to put up a damn piece of plywood over the balcony stairwell landing window for the past 4 years! Would it hurt to move a little of that Whittier money over here, Mel?

Speaking of which, anyone know how to get ahold of him?

My wife and I are looking at one of his buildings and assume he's not at the old PD station on Rosa and GR anymore, now that that building is lofts.