Will Brooklyn’s decaying Kings Theater finally be saved? According to this NY Times article, a developer has made a $70 million dollar agreement to renovate, with plans for it to become a live performance venue. Finally!
Check out my post on the theater for more info. Opened in 1929, the theater (one of the five Loew’s movie “palaces”) closed its doors in 1977 and was abandoned to rot.
Over thirty years later, things haven’t been looking so pretty at the Kings.
But $70 million is a lot of money. How much will be saved of the original theater? According to a rep from ACE Theatrical, the developer, “We’ll be able to recreate what it looked like when it was first put into use,” he said. “We’ll be able to very accurately recreate what is no longer there and restore what is there.”
Fingers crossed!
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Hope this goes through as planned. I know the Kings well (and Loew’s, in Brooklyn, is, of course, pronounced Low-ees). My uncle used to work there, and my cousins and I used to play on the stage, run up and down the aisles, and eat insane amounts of candy from the concession before the general public was let in.
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Just read a piece on Gothamist about a press day for the Loews Kings theatre. Looks like it’s a go! They posted some amazing photographs of the decayed interior, but you can still see the potential!