Print Article"It's not anything we need to get too upset about or cry over. It's just a function of the marketplace. If there's no demand for it, it won't survive. It's the same everywhere." -Jim Gilmore, executive director of the Jacksonville Downtown Development Authority, regarding the closing of the Center Theater - 1/06/83
A view down east down Forsyth Street, from Laura Street. The block of buildings featuring Republic Theatre was demolished for a Landing related parking garage that was never built. Today, the site is home to a city owned surface parking lot.
Customers could enter the Arcade Theatre from either Adams or Forsyth Street. The theatre's former site was the proposed location of Cameron Kuhn's ill-fated Laura Trio parking garage.
Looking west down Forsyth Street in the 1930's.
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