I have been hearing whispers of this on Seventh Avenue. Does anyone know more about the Pavilion being turned into condos?

Someone sent me this email last week. I couldn’t agree with her more about the neighborhood needing a movie theater.

Have you heard that plans are being considered to sell the Pavilion,  the only movie theater in Park Slope, to a developer who would turn it into a condo building with a large underground parking garage? 

We need a movie theater in this neighborhood — a place for teenagers to walk to locally, for families, and for local businesses to keep people in the neighborhood on nights out instead of heading to Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, or Manhattan.

I’m not sure what needs to be done to keep it a theater. I heard that in Bayridge something similiar happened and the local realtors helped find a buyer who would  continue to keep it as a movie theater.  I can’t believe that in Park Slope there is not someone who wants to run a movie theater and/or restaurant since there is space inside for a restaurant (the former "Living Room" restaurant has been closed and is now just a large concession stand for the theater).