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scrivenerb commented about Rockville Centre Cinema on Jul 24, 2007 at 1:20 pm

Anyone interested in forming a coalition to help turn this theater into a community cultural arts center that would show independent movies as well as develop other art and dramatic programs, please e-mail me
posted by scrivenerb on Jul 24, 2007 at 12:36pm

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scrivenerb commented about Rockville Centre Cinema on Jul 24, 2007 at 12:49 pm

Interesting. I actually met with the realtor today and saw the building. He didn’t mention anything about that and the architectural plans he gave me gave me the impression that they were also trying to pitch it as a retail space.

I’ve written to some local government officials and they seem interested in the cultural arts center idea.

Well at least it would be kept as a movie theater if a cineplex took it over and it wouldn’t be a chain store. Please let me know if you hear anything else.

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scrivenerb commented about Rockville Centre Cinema on Jul 24, 2007 at 12:36 pm

Anyone interested in forming a coalition to help turn this theater into a community cultural arts center, please e-mail me

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scrivenerb commented about Rockville Centre Cinema on Jul 19, 2007 at 6:34 pm

Up for lease for over a year, the RVC theater is now up for sale. The realtor is Sutton and Edwards and the phone number on the marquee is 516-328-6500.

While not the most beautiful theater, the marquee is cool, and the historic value to the community is, I think, important.

Rockville Centre is a very community based village. The people are very proud of their community and work very hard to preserve it which may to some appear to “have an attitude,” and it also accounts for some somewhat unique restrictions on homes and businesses. People who live here put up with it because they know it is in the interest of preserving the charm of the village they love.

After reading in the Rockville Centre Herald that the Malverne was interested in the property, I spoke to the Malverne owner about it briefly one night while attending his theater and he said that he didn’t think the theater could make money since it was only a duplex and the problem of the parking issue.

Nevertheless, I think this theater has some potential. Rockville Centre is known as the restaurant captial of Nassau County. It is the perfect dinner and a movie date night town, especially because of the variety of restaurants. People from all over the county come here to go out to dinner.

I think it could do well as a community arts cultural center. A similar project of turning an old movie theater into a cultural arts center did wonders for the real estate in West Hampton Beach. The Huntington Cultural Arts Center seems to be successful.

I’m going to look into it to see if it’s viable. Anyone interested in joining a coalition to turn the movie theater into a cultural arts center, e-mail me at or stay tuned……