Developer to save Park Theatre, create Lincoln Park Lofts

[Novine]

A small victory in a small city:

"City officials pushed for its redevelopment, and, eventually, its demolition. The Lincoln Park Preservation Alliance, a group of local preservation-minded activists, pushed for saving it to preserve the historic character of the city. The compromise is the Lincoln Park Lofts development."

http://www.metromodemedia.com/devnew...lofts0111.aspx

[wolverine]

Great news!

[reddog289]

Thats pretty cool that a theatre like that can be saved. I am not the loft kinda guy yet when I see reuse of something like that I am glad.

[East Detroit]

Sounds like only the marquee will remain intact and the theatre itself will become lofts?

[Danny]

Finally, Downtown Lincoln Park look like a Detroit ghetto. It needs to be fashionable compared to Downtown Ferndale. It tired of looking at vacant buildings and a empty parking lots on Fort St. and Southfield Rd. It needs to catch up with Downtown Allen Park and Wynadotte.

[Gistok]

This will be like the Berkeley Theatre in Berkeley.... they saved the facade and gutted the interior for another use [[in that case a drug store).

This kind of remodeling is not unusual for former theatres. In Los Angeles the Pantages Theatre houses a jewelry store [[although much of the theatre survives). in Brooklyn NY, the former Brooklyn Paramount is now used by Long Island University... the auditorium [[with most of the ornate plasterwork surviving) is used as a basketball court, and the lobby is used as a cafeteria.

Even in Grosse Pointe Farms, the former Punch and Judy Theatre Building survives as office space, without the theatre and marquee.

[Ed Golick]

Although I suppose it's better than bulldozing the building, I don't consider carving up a theater for lofts "saving a theater."