In Harlem, The Apollo Gets A New/Old Neighbor

The renovated Victoria Theater, which will now serve as the entrance to a new hotel but will still contain a performance space.  I'm kind of surprised I'm embracing this as easily as I am, because, in my early days as a theater preservationist, I was not a big fan of this kind of adaptive re-use.  As I've gotten older, and more aware of the limits that modern life imposes on preservation efforts, my thinking about adaptive re-use has become more flexible.  It's always good to save as much as you can and, if projects like the Victoria accomplish that, I'm all for them.