A victory for Traverse City
Great news for supercool Traverse City Film Festival attendees (of which I hope to one day count myself - a local paper described it as "the best thing to happen here since the Ice Age left us Lake Michigan.") and downtown Traverse City via Cinema Treasures: the venerable State Theater will be re-opened year-round, showing independent and smaller-venue films.
This is a good model for other essential redevelopment efforts in the state, as it nimbly drew together stakeholders like Michael Moore and his Festival board, the Rotary Charities of Traverse City (the previous owners), and even Carmike Cinemas, Georgia-based owners of larger mainstream theaters in the area.
M and I recently traveled to TC for a wedding held in the recently-renovated Opera House also downtown, a well-done and worthwhile effort. We drove past the State and I remember thinking it'd be a cool destination in an otherwise shopping-centric tourist town if someone could get it polished up. Nice to see it will happen.
UPDATE: Even though the State just hosted the Film Festival, some more work will be done (in addition to the new screen, sound system, and projectors) and it will have a grand opening November 17. If you'd like a change of pace, they're looking for a new manager.
And, if you'd like a run-down of some new queue potentials, see Chad's review of the 2007 festival.
posted by jim at 6/04/2007 03:36:00 PM
1 Comments:
Chad and I went to the TC Film Festival last year and have tickets for this years festival. We had a blast and I'm so happy that their opening that theater up full time. Its a really nice theater and a central part of the downtown area, I couldnt believe that it sat vacant year round.
I highly recommend making a trip to the film festival next year because the movies are always excellent and you meet a lot of fun, interesting people (like us!).
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