The Queen Theater in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, a five-story, two-tiered, 2,000-seat venue built in 1915 and closed since 1959 has had a lot of buzz in the news lately. It is to become a live music venue run by World Cafe Live, which calls its home the Philadelphia campus of the University of Pennsylvania.
I had been on a hard-hat tour of the moldy, reeking Queen Theater several years ago, and there are actually some pictures of the pre-renovation on http://lightupthequeen.org/. A bunch of preservationists were called in for a photo shoot in front of the Queen Theater in support of historic preservation tax credits the other day, and I had a chance to see how the renovation is coming. As you can see from these pictures, the building is pretty much gutted today, which prompted a planner from the City to say that there was not much left of the Queen. This will be interesting to watch. Judge for yourself.
Wow! That's a lot of sky between those new steel beams! Watch this blog to see how it progresses.
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