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Webster sold to MassConcerts
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Michael Zoldessy
on
March 27, 2009 at 2:45 pm
HARTFORD, CT — An era is over for the Webster Theatre as it falls upon new ownership.
More than 70 years of family ownership has ended with the sale of the Webster Theatre in Hartford to a Massachusetts concert promoter.
Justine Robertson, whose family built the Barry Square movie house in 1937, has sold the venue for an undisclosed price to John Peters, who takes control of the 1,250-capacity rock club, the largest in Connecticut. The purchase price was not disclosed.
Read more at the Hartford Courant.
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Wish someone would buy the Ritz in Elizabeth N.J. instead of it sitting there doing nothing.