Owners hope for full restoration of Chicago's Uptown Theatre
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- CBS 2's Noel Brennan got a rare look inside the massive venue on Broadway near Lawrence Avenue, which has been shuttered since 1981.
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I grew up in Lakewood-Balmoral and went to that theater countless times as a kid. It was truly breathtaking even in the 70s when it was starting to show signs of age. I hope funds can be raised to restore it to it's grandeur.
Stunning Spectacular interiors, a diamond in the rough, that beautiful Gorgeous theater needs to be refurbished, make it Shine again, it's just so awesome and amazing, the infinite elaborate details... ❤
Oh, I sure hope it comes back in all its glory!
I've seen this same story for 40 years. With each owner there's a story needing other investors to help with the cost. We're bringing the Uptown back and they give a video tour. I used to work across the street and forgive my pessimism but I'll believe it when I see it.
i haven’t been up that way in 8-10 years or so. i believe the area has been gentrifying like a mofo, right? maybe they’ll get to it?
again note i haven’t been there in a while. throwing out a guess
It's a scam, and a well known one that's generally banned outside the United States. Basically someone purchases a "landmark building of cultural importance" and then asks for investors to help in a restoration. They then bilk the investors until they become impatient and demand a time-table and expenditure sheet (what they recieve is always questionable), and then it's sold to the next scammer to do the exact same thing. In other Countries there is usually Government oversight for all "cultural restoration" projects, even if it's (on) private property. This isn't new for Uptown; but the "Public Use, Private Use" scam is more prevalent there; when public housing buildings are set for a "rehab" and then when the rehab is done it's turned into private upscale housing (examples: Lawrence House, The Club on Wilson [formerly Wilson Men's Club]). 8 New Buildings and Restoration Projects in the last 13 years and none of them are at capacity. Meanwhile all the tenants have been fored into shelters because the 10% Section 8 TIF rule isn't followed by the Local Alderpeople and hasn't been since Shiller (who went overboard with it and turned Uptown into a slumlord nightmare).
It would be great if there was a college with preservation students or architecture who could do a practicum to work on their degree while restoring this building
Engineering students as well.. we love applied knowledge 😎
If they can re open the Ramova theater in Bridgeport, anything is possible.
good place for events except for abysmal parking.
Facts.. you'll lose some of the suburbs because of that..
that would be amazing!
My family use to go watch movies at the Uptown theatre in the 1970s, and The Riviera theater as my well just south of the Uptown Theatre. . The ceiling was really high, and they had lights on the side seats as you went down to sit. The neighborhood back then was ghetto as all the rich had moved to the suburbs, so the tickets were cheap, and you got to see two movies for the price of one, but it was rare you saw a hit movie when it first came out, until it had been out for a while. Many fake Bruce Lee movies I saw there, and monster movies. Alice Cooper had played there like a year before they closed. Me and my older brother did not have tickets, but listened outside, when suddenly the side doors opened and out popped the band going into trailers.
Why did it close down
Beautiful but lead paint that, I can see it’s peeling.
Again?
God bless you such a beautiful iconic building.I wish you all the best
My wife's grandfather was a theater organist there in the 1920s. #jeananthonygreif
It will bring a lot of revenue!!
Why not sell it to the neighborhood and get the community to help restore it (both with contractors and just volunteer support)? It should belong to Uptown anyway.
It's a story pretty much void of really any content. You asked people who had little of value to say. You showed little to no real curiosity.