Sorry, I misspoke. The interior is all being destroyed, but the building is not being razed. It’s being converted into 6 story frontage on Meserole and 4 stories on Graham, with modifications to exterior ‘as needed’…The permit approves it for Residential R-2. Basically another condo. http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2012/06/williamsburgs-rainbow-theater-gets-a-major-gut/?stream=true
This should have been landmarked!!!
I don’t know how they got the zoning approved to convert from the movie theater/chapel into residential, ugh.
Its being demolished as of today. The demo team couldn’t tell me anything about the owner/new plans. Matt Lambros, do you know how much it sold for/whats going to become of it? Such a loss- my backyard leads to the Rainbow Theatre backyard, had really hoped for something wonderful and maintaining the original features and functions to come here! Wish we could at least get in and salvage some of the theater seats or SOMETHING…
Sorry, I misspoke. The interior is all being destroyed, but the building is not being razed. It’s being converted into 6 story frontage on Meserole and 4 stories on Graham, with modifications to exterior ‘as needed’…The permit approves it for Residential R-2. Basically another condo. http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2012/06/williamsburgs-rainbow-theater-gets-a-major-gut/?stream=true
This should have been landmarked!!!
I don’t know how they got the zoning approved to convert from the movie theater/chapel into residential, ugh.
Its being demolished as of today. The demo team couldn’t tell me anything about the owner/new plans. Matt Lambros, do you know how much it sold for/whats going to become of it? Such a loss- my backyard leads to the Rainbow Theatre backyard, had really hoped for something wonderful and maintaining the original features and functions to come here! Wish we could at least get in and salvage some of the theater seats or SOMETHING…