Industry Noize: NOLA Sees Theatre Revival

Debbie Speer
5:01 am, Tuesday, 08/19/2014
News

New Orleans continues to see a revival in its theatre district, with the sale of the State Palace Theater — boarded up and mostly idle since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 – to a commercial developer for $3.5 million.

Developer Gregor Fox told the New Orleans Times-Picayune he hopes to renovate the building’s exterior and retail tenant space within two years.

, and the reopening of the Saenger and Joy theatres.

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