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Re:A Case for the Preservation of Abandoned Places by SoftTalker on Friday February 09, 2024 @01:27PM (#39318379)
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 (#39318500)
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.