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Closed: 1979
Demolished: March 27, 2010
Location: Corner of Park and Broad Street
This article by Kerri Provost describes the problems with the Lyric Theatre before it was torn down:
The Lyric Theatre closed in 1979. After thirty years of "demolition by neglect" and a cost of upwards of $400,000 for stabilization and abatement, the City has decided to remove it via "emergency demolition" on March 27th and 28th. The inside of the theater was gutted and cleaned out over three years ago. Geathers claimed that, "no one's ever given us a proposal...for the redevelopment of this." It's hard to believe that the City could not have worked more carefully with potential investors as to encourage a serious proposal at some point over the past thirty years.
The Lyric Theatre has been sitting vacant as property of the City for years. When blight exists for this long, it can hardly be considered an "emergency." One asks what was being done for the past several decades to maintain this building. What can we expect the City of Hartford to do in terms of other people's blighted properties if it can not even maintain its own?
Full article: http://www.realhartford.org/2010/03/24/lyric-theater-demolition-order-letter-is-official-and-cannot-be-changed/
Update: The building has been demolished on March 27th, 2010.
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