Duluth To Raze Historic Part of Theater
Decatur Metro | May 25, 2010While many in Decatur pine for a historic theater, Duluth is knocking down theirs. From the AJC…
Duluth will knock down the oldest section of its prized Red Clay Theatre on Wednesday.
Almost a month after razing about 80 feet of the theater at Ga. 120 and Main Street, the city will demolish the 1908 portion of the city-owned brick building. Despite efforts to salvage the section, officials said there were too many structural issues at too high a cost to repair.
According to the article, another portion of the theater was knocked down last month in order “to widen GA 120 and increase the historic district’s visibility from Buford Highway.”
Perhaps this is all just to make way for that Continental Divide Ice Cream Parlor.
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Stupid Duluth…Norcross looks much nicer now!
Speaking of Norcross…ever notice their signage? Decatur could take a hint from them…very nicely done…timelesss. Decaturs signage, while nice and new, is very contemporary to me and stands to become dated in a couple decades. oh well.
Stupid Duluth.
Geez.
While many in Decatur pine for a historic theater…
What about the empty historic theater in downtown Avondale?
I dunno…Duluth’s Town Green is a bit more appealing that what passes for greenspace on the square. The same design firm that did Decatur did Norcross too.
Decatur and Norcross signage that is…
Thank you, JB, my thoughts exactly. I just moved over to The ‘Dale (I’m set on calling it that,) and wondered how long it would be until that place was revived.
I hope we see some impressive ideas for it come from the Fenner Dunlop Land Use vision….