Re:A Case for the Preservation of Abandoned Places
by lc9er on Friday February 09, 2024 @02:35PM
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Living in Philly, I can pretty confidently say there’s a 0% chance a theater in Lansdowne, even a nicely restored, historical, theater, will attract 100000 visitors in a year.
Re:A Case for the Preservation of Abandoned Places
by ghaff on Friday February 09, 2024 @03:49PM
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Oh, I'd expect the person whose baby this is would be over-optimistic. But I'll still maintain that a restored downtown concert space with some historical significance isn't a bad thing.
Re:A Case for the Preservation of Abandoned Places
by lc9er on Friday February 09, 2024 @04:42PM
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Agreed. I definitely came off a bit cynical. We just have an abundance of exceptional performance spaces in Philly and the nearby suburbs. Hopefully, this is a benefit to Lansdowne.
Re:A Case for the Preservation of Abandoned Places
by SoftTalker on Friday February 09, 2024 @01:27PM
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If someone or some group wants to buy an old theater and try to revitalize it, fine. But if someone wants to buy it and tear it down and build apartments, or convert the space into a restaurant or something else, that should be fine too. Most local theaters are not historically significant, they are just old.
Re:A Case for the Preservation of Abandoned Places
by ghaff on Friday February 09, 2024 @01:35PM
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I don't think I wrote anything different. I would need considerable convincing that an abandoned theater should be left to rot empty because no developer wants to faithfully restore it as a theater as opposed to building something else there.
In this case, someone did eventually undertake restoring it so it's not actually abandoned.
(The headline is a bit misleading. Most of the article is about efforts to revitalize the theater.)