Building owner Rob Kaufman confirms signs posted on the theater on Saturday morning were not true.
King Street pedestrians were met with a bit of a shock Saturday morning when they passed the vacant Old Town Theater. Signage was posted on the building stating that Hooters—the Atlanta-based restaurant chain known for its fried chicken wings and scantily-clad female wait staff—was coming soon to the property located at 815½ King St. The signage turned out to be nothing more than a hoax. Theater owner Rob Kaufman confirmed to Patch early Saturday afternoon that bringing Hooters girls to King Street is not in his plans. “Someone must have played a joke,” Kaufman wrote in an email, adding that the phony signs were being taken down. In April, Alexandria’s Board of Architectural Review approved Kaufman’s plans to revitalize the building. …
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The building's owner indicates the historic building likely will again house a theater, but it's not a done deal.
Although the Old Town Theater has been vacant for most of this year, it’s not yet in its final act. The city’s Board of Architectural Review on Wednesday night approved current owner Robert Kaufman’s plans to revitalize the building. All it needs now is a tenant, and it looks likely that its next inhabitant will again fill its walls with a silver screen. Theater owner Robert Kaufman told the board that he hoped “I would tell you that I got a theater, but that has not yet come to pass. … I believe I’m going to end up getting a theater.” The theater, located at 815 ½ King St., closed and was sold in January after its previous owner, Roger Fons, struggled for nine years to keep it running. Kaufman has been entertaining ideas to convert the …
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JamesOnThePotomac
9:01 am on Wednesday, June 20, 2012
I also like the wings! more ›