Strand Theater

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It looks like Bric Arts Media (the good folks who bring you Celebrate Brooklyn!) will have a new home starting in 2013. According to the NYPost.com, city officials will break ground today (Oct 11) on the long-awaited $30 million renovation of the century-old Strand Theater in Fort Greene (647 Fulton Street).

The project — which is predominately city-funded and one of many planned for the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Cultural District — would create new performance space, additional studio space for Brooklyn Cable Access Television (BCAT) and more blowing room for the glass-blowing collective Urban Glass.
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The renovation of the historic 1918 Strand Theatre is anticipated to be finished in 2013.
The renovated building will include three galleries with 8,000 square feet of exhibition space, a 250-seat performance space, a television studio, an artist performance/work space, a glass working facility, a retail space, a public lobby and two classrooms. [NYPost.com]

This announcement sounds pretty exciting, probably almost as exciting as it sounded back in 2008.

PS Marty Markovitz, if you’re reading this, whatever happened to that Loews Kings Theater renovation?