Carolina Theatre
226 N. Tryon Street,
Charlotte,
NC
28202
226 N. Tryon Street,
Charlotte,
NC
28202
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Construction is in the final stages with completion projected for the end of 2024 and the grand opening early in 2025. The budget has grown to nearly $90 million. The exterior has a recently added vertical sign (posted in the photo section) and the historic facade with a reproduction marquee is being reinstalled just inside the new glass box lobby.
Where does one find photos re: the Carolina on Foundation for the Carolinas?
Thank you ncmark for the latest update. Will look at photos on Foundation for the Carolinas.
Updates from the official website of Foundation for the Carolinas have great pictures of the most recent work done which is estimated at 70% complete. EverGreene Studios is doing incredible work on plaster restoration and painting. No opening date has been set but the budget has climbed to $88 million.
July 2023: The new newsletter has some color photos of the auditorium restoration - they’ve restored a lot of the ornamental details in the front of the auditorium with those around sidewalls and balcony starting later in the summer. Nice progress being made! Go to this link (https://carolinatheatreclt.org/) and scroll down to the newsletter button.
A chronology of Charlotte’s 70mm presentations history has recently been published/updated. The Carolina, of course, gets several mentions in the piece.
The Charlotte Business Journal just reported on updates for this project. Opening is at least a year away so hopefully some time in summer of 2024. The costs is now estimated at $73 million and may go up a bit more. Fundraising is needed for an additional $12 million. The 32 story hotel addition over the lobby has not restarted yet but hopefully will soon. Inside work on the ceiling is progressing as is recasting of ornamental plaster removed in the 1961 Cinerama remodeling. No photographers have been allowed in yet in hopes of building up a wow factor closer to the reopening.
https://carolinatheatreclt.org/theatre/project/
Lived there 18 winters and met with many fellow theatre buffs re: this theatre in downtown Charlotte. Even went to a NYE party there years ago.
Mark: Finally! Hope to see photos soon. My email is
The latest update for the opening date is now early 2024. Hopefully some interior pictures will be released soon to give everyone a preview. It’s been an incredibly long construction project hampered by every delay imaginable but it looks like this project will give Charlotte an asset unlike anything else in this fast growing city.
Work continues on renovations but several setbacks have pushed the completion and reopening date to spring 2023. Work on the hotel tower over the new lobby area may resume soon in the fall of 2022.
Link to their Spring 2021 newsletter:
https://carolinatheatreclt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Spring-2021-newsletter.pdf
Highlights: Construction continuing, primarily on electrical, HVAC, etc. and continued excavation of the basement into the crawlspace. The roof will be removed and replaced over the summer of 2021 (So it’s probably done by now).
Hi, Patsy and other members. I emailed the powers that be and offered the gift of a Barton Theatre Organ for the restoration. I was told that the renovation plans do not include the re-installation of a pipe organ. As I understand, the Theatre originally had a Barton. If anyone has any questions they can contact me directly.
Thank you ncmark. Hope to see photos. My email is
Today’s Charlotte Observer reports that construction on the theater continues despite the hotel tower being put on hold indefinitely. The steel framework is completed for the first few floors that will hold the lobby and administrative offices. Completion is expected in late 2022. Picture added of the framework as of April 2021.
Work continues on the theater but hotel construction has been put on hold. Not canceled but delayed indefinitely due to Pandemic uncertainties. Most recent estimates for the theater completion is fall of 2022.
Another update - their Fall 2020 newsletter. Construction continues, on many fronts including lobby tower, stagehouse infrastructure and more.
https://app.yearly.report/preview/?rid=-MK0E51JPFy_kz7d8PPj&uid=bFiVrfkv8fZNMtapVtY0Kbr6zkp1
A great asset and a very long time coming.
It has been a long time since I posted anything,also,Patsy. That this project is going forward,will be a great asset to Charlotte .
Sorry if the link I just posted is not in blue to simply tap on it. It is worth reading. Can’t tell you how pleased I am to see this theatre finally being restored in downtown Charlotte! When I moved to Charlotte in 2003 I knew that it had been quite the theatre in its heyday and that it was worth saving. Thank goodness it was never demolished then and is now being restored for future generations. There were many Carolina Theatres throughout NC and many are listed as closed. Such a shame. I haven’t posted on CT for quite awhile though feel it is time to start posting again on a site that is close to my heart. Thank you Ross for creating CT for all of us theatre buffs. Btw, I hope to have a theatre exhibit in September in remembrance of my hometown theatre, the Grand in Westfield NY though COVID may require changes in the plan. The Grand is listed on CT. Check it out.
https://carolinatheatreclt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Spring-2020-newsletter.pdf
Music to my ears! Btw, this theatre should now be marked as renovating and not closed.
According to the Spring 2020 newsletter:
(https://carolinatheatreclt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Spring-2020-newsletter.pdf)
The foundation work for the tower in front of the auditorium is finished and the “core components” of the tower have been rising, by June, they would be above the level of the auditorium — it looks like construction is well underway!
What is the latest?