Sun-Ray Cinema building to sell, historic designation prevents parking garage without approval

Rumors swirled after an online petition said the Riverside building, at 1028 Park St., would be demolished and turned into a parking garage.said the Riverside building, at 1028 Park St., would be demolished and turned into a parking garage. Residents soon after began posting to social media and signing an action campaign to save the building.

The petition's creator, Adam Guillette, said residents worried the designation would not hold because of renovations done to the building decades earlier.Sun-Ray Cinema, which was bought and remodeled in 2011, is a building tenant, not the owner. The business posted on Facebook saying the cinema owners spoke to the potential buyer in January and have not been offered a lease extension.

“Despite our attempts in the past to purchase just the theater portion of the building which is possible through a process called condominiumizing, they have turned us down,” the Facebook post read. “We have dreamed for years of renovating this theater into the gem that it could be for the neighborhood, but it looks like that might never happen.”

WARNING: BAD NEWS POST A patron of Sun-Ray found out about the impending sale of the building we are currently in so...According to the Duval County Property Appraiser’s website, the building was last sold in 2004 to the current owners for $2 million.The theater has a long history in the neighborhood after opening in 1927 as the Riverside Theatre, designed by Roy Benjamin, who also designed the Florida Theatre.

It once again returned as 5 Points Theatre in 2008 before being renovated in 2011 by the current owners. Sun-Ray Cinema owners want to help keep St. Johns County IMAX aliveBefore You Leave, Check This Out

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