Friday, August 17, 2007
Worn-down movie theater in east Arlington to be torn down
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The owners of a vacant movie theater, Park Plaza Cinema 4, signed off on an agreement with the city of Arlington on Thursday to allow the building to be torn down.
For the next ninety days the dilapidated theater will sit there at its address, New York Avenue & Park Row Drive, awaiting a death that will come on swift, bull-dozing wings. It's going to hurt, theater, it's going to hurt. But it will all be over soon. No, be strong. Be strong.
Only a sum of $514,350 could bring the theater up to code, which city officials believe could be better used elsewhere.
Posted by Chad
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ch0 Anonymous
Ah yes, the old dollar movie spot. Went there one time only, about 15 years ago. The film broke halfway through, and they had to turn the lights on and evacuate everybody. Good times indeed. They should make it a spanish-language theater or something. That particular intersection is ripe for some ethnically-targeted development money.
10 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
viva_la_malcriada Anonymous
>>They should make it a spanish-language theater or something<<
I thought it had been for a while? You're absolutely right about that particular intersection being in need of some ethnically-infused development dollars, though - Arlington's already chock-full of empty shopping centers and former Vandergriff car lots, and they all fall under the category of 'eyesore.' And as a resident of Allan Saxe-ington (yes, they should rename it that because Allan Saxe rules!) it'd warm the cockles of my heart to see something done with all that wasted space.
10 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
ch0 Anonymous
Agreed. All the "old" parts of Arlington are now what the "farmland" here was 20 years ago, LOL! Nowhere to go but up! Just wait til downtown is an urban cultural hot-spot with its own riverwalk! OK, maybe I'm dreaming, but maybe not....
10 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
DC Anonymous
Yeah, just like the Trinity - anyone been to the boat ramp off Sylvan lately?
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SonyaBlade Anonymous
I used to sell the 45 hispanic families living there colas. Once again Arlington screws it up for everyone. Why don't you go build a stadium over your face.
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