Sadly, the Casa Linda Theater is officially dead as a theater. Good job Barry and Keith. Way to line up those people who wanted to revive the theater as an actual theater. Instead, they sell to a company that is going to gut it and make retail space. So instead of leasing the theater to the Alamo Drafthouse company and getting a tenant who would have made the place a huge draw for the area, they sell to someone who is going to turn it into probably a Big Lots or something terrible. At least the company that bought it plans to keep the outside in tact but they are completely demolishing the inside. I just don’t get why these guys didn’t do what they could to get the Alamo in there. What a sad, sad day.
Casa Linda Theater’s next role: shopping space
11:03 PM CST on Thursday, November 30, 2006
By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News
Developers have purchased the historic Casa Linda Theater and plan to convert the empty movie house into shopping space.
A partnership represented by Dallas' SC Companies recently acquired the 61-year-old cinema in northeast Dallas from a group of investors who had hoped to revive the theater.
The Spanish-style building at Buckner Boulevard and Garland Road anchors the Casa Linda shopping center and has been vacant for almost seven years.
The new owners plan to remodel and lease the 12,000-square-foot building to one or more tenants, Grey Stogner with SC Companies said Thursday.
“Right now we are doing some environmental abatement and demolition on the inside of the building and are marketing it to retailers,” Mr. Stogner said. “We want to try and maintain the architectural integrity of the original theater.”
Casa Linda Theater closed in 1999, a victim of changes in the cinema business. It was one of the last small neighborhood theaters operating in the Dallas area.
Since then, owners have considered converting the theater into a combination cinema and restaurant and other uses. But those deals never got off the ground.
County deed records show that the new owner, Woodstead Realty LP, bought the building in early November with a $7 million loan from Amegy Mortgage Co.
Mr. Stogner said tenants for the building would be lined up by early next year.
“It’s a great area with tremendous demographics,” he said.
Sadly, the Casa Linda Theater is officially dead as a theater. Good job Barry and Keith. Way to line up those people who wanted to revive the theater as an actual theater. Instead, they sell to a company that is going to gut it and make retail space. So instead of leasing the theater to the Alamo Drafthouse company and getting a tenant who would have made the place a huge draw for the area, they sell to someone who is going to turn it into probably a Big Lots or something terrible. At least the company that bought it plans to keep the outside in tact but they are completely demolishing the inside. I just don’t get why these guys didn’t do what they could to get the Alamo in there. What a sad, sad day.
Casa Linda Theater’s next role: shopping space
11:03 PM CST on Thursday, November 30, 2006
By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News
Developers have purchased the historic Casa Linda Theater and plan to convert the empty movie house into shopping space.
A partnership represented by Dallas' SC Companies recently acquired the 61-year-old cinema in northeast Dallas from a group of investors who had hoped to revive the theater.
The Spanish-style building at Buckner Boulevard and Garland Road anchors the Casa Linda shopping center and has been vacant for almost seven years.
The new owners plan to remodel and lease the 12,000-square-foot building to one or more tenants, Grey Stogner with SC Companies said Thursday.
“Right now we are doing some environmental abatement and demolition on the inside of the building and are marketing it to retailers,” Mr. Stogner said. “We want to try and maintain the architectural integrity of the original theater.”
Casa Linda Theater closed in 1999, a victim of changes in the cinema business. It was one of the last small neighborhood theaters operating in the Dallas area.
Since then, owners have considered converting the theater into a combination cinema and restaurant and other uses. But those deals never got off the ground.
County deed records show that the new owner, Woodstead Realty LP, bought the building in early November with a $7 million loan from Amegy Mortgage Co.
Mr. Stogner said tenants for the building would be lined up by early next year.
“It’s a great area with tremendous demographics,” he said.
“We’re glad to be there.”