Newark could have saved the 1886 Paramount theater, built as a vaudeville house but then converted to a movie palace by renowned architect Thomas Lamb–
instead it’s giving us an apartment tower on the site, rising behind the sham of another dubious exercise in “facadism” preserving the exoskeleton of the building.
Of course, the building is now 28 stories when it was originally approved to be 12. Just like that. Something about funding issues.
And, of course, Newark’s Landmarks and Historic “Preservation” Commission approved the demolition, and gave fulsome thanks to the developer for retaining the little that is going to be retained.
Oh, but everything’s OK because some of the apartments will be “affordable.”
How affordabe for whom is TK.