Efforts intensified to renovate, reopen Denis Theater

posted by CSWalczak on January 29, 2010 at 7:53 am

MT. LEBANON, PA — Formed in 2008, the Denis Theater Foundation was formed to save the Denis Theater which opened in 1937 and closed in 2004 as a quad. The foundation hopes to raise $2.5 million to acquire the heater, and then reopen it in phases.

The foundation’s project to resurrect the Denis, which opened in 1938 and closed in disrepair in 2004, started in the spring of 2008. Shortly after the fundraising project began, the economy took a dive, and efforts at raising money ground to a halt, Ms. Kemerer said.

But the dream was not dead.

“A movie theater is a really important driving element of a main street area, and main street movie theaters are a dying breed,” Ms. Kemerer said. “If we don’t save the one we have, there will never be a movie theater again in Uptown Mt. Lebanon.

Read more in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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Comments (2)

SusanD
SusanD on February 3, 2010 at 12:01 pm

I’m hoping this place can get renovated.

mmmbuzz
mmmbuzz on March 15, 2010 at 3:22 pm

We have several new, surplus NEC Starus NC1500C DLP digital projectors for sale.

They are rated at 11,000 lumens and spec’d for screens from 26ft – 48ft wide.

We will sell them for a fraction of the original retail price.

We also have the bulbs for these projectors.

We will warranty the projectors for 6 months.

I have attached the PDF spec sheet for your review.
Please contact me if you are interested.

Thank you for your time and best of luck with your theater project.

Matt –

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