Arts group drops attempt to save doomed Pantages Theatre
The Pantages Theatre Arts Society has given up its fight to save the 102-year-old theatre after three years of negotiations with the city stalled, according to the society’s chair. Vancouver’s oldest theatre-located in the Downtown Eastside on East Hastings Street-is in extremely bad condition, Peter Fairchild said in a Dec. 18 open letter to the Vancouver Heritage Society.
“There was a fire set on the roof of the building in May 2009. The complete stage area has now collapsed into the basement, the balconies are no longer safe to walk on, and the structural members supporting the front of the theatre are now splitting,” Fairchild wrote. “It is no longer possible to enter the building safely to retrieve any of the remaining heritage elements.”
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