My idea to preserve the United Artist Theatre

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The President of Emagine Theaters and Rapper Big Sean have expressed interest in teaming up to bring an Emagine Theater in and around downtown Detroit as recently as March of 2019.

https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/02/27/big-sean-emagine-detroit-downtown-movie-theater/379124002/

https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/2018/09/05/big-sean-narrows-detroit-movie-theater-search-two-sites/1206722002/

https://www.metrotimes.com/the-scene/archives/2019/03/20/emagine-says-detroit-will-still-get-a-movie-theater-after-site-gets-sold-to-marijuana-business

Their plan “calls for a "luxury venue" housing 10 to 12 screens and up to 1,300 in total seating. The biggest auditorium in the complex would be a 300-seat room that doubles as a live music venue.”

MY IDEA:
-Combine the United Artists Theater Building and the adjacent Tuller Hotel site into one superblock for one building

-Build the 9 regular-sized movie auditoriums on the Tuller portion of the site

-The restored theater can be the “live music venue” that Big Sean wants to include which would also show hot, popular new movie premiers, as well as classical movies. You could book other events, maybe it could be the future performance home of a DETROIT BALLET COMPANY.

-Therefore, you are now getting funds from Emagine and whatever Big Sean is planning to contribute, which makes restoration more economically feasible.

From the September 2018 article:
“"We want to do something revolutionary with it," Big Sean said at the time. "We don't want to just make it a movie theater, traditionally. We also want it to be a hub for entertainment for the whole community. We want people to have an incentive to go the extra miles, to travel into Detroit."

BIG SEAN, THE UA THEATER IS THAT PLACE