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Goodbye to the Broadmoor Theatre
Posted on 9/26/14 at 9:11 am
Posted on 9/26/14 at 9:11 am
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Once home to several movie screens the former Broadmoor Theater will be demolished in the next year to add more parking to the connecting shopping center.
However, the theater could be leveled sooner if the price is right, according to Baton Rouge area developer Randolph Ogden, who originally developed the theater nearly 50 years ago.
Though he's considered a tenant, operating his property management office out of the theater along Florida Boulevard, Ogden currently holds a 50-year land lease on the property that expires in August of 2015, and he brings in cash from two tenants he subleases to. "(Property owners) have not offered us enough money to leave. I'm bringing in $3,000 a month in rental income. There's no reason to walk away from that," Ogden said.
Austin Earhart of Beau Box Commercial Real Estate, the company developing the adjoining Broadmoor Village Shopping Center, said crews have already demolished the 42,000 square-foot building next to the theater.
Both will be demolished to make way for additional parking for the shopping center, which houses Planet Fitness, Family Dollar, American Cash Advance and the recently-relocated Hi Nabor grocery store.
The Broadmoor Theater opened in 1965 under the Ogden-Perry chain, one of 18 theaters Ogden owned throughout the South at the time. All were sold by 1987.
The theater was restructured several times, until ceasing operations in the late 1990s, but in 1998, reopened under different management. By 2004 the theater was closed again.
Since then, a teen nightclub tried operating out of the space and currently a recording studio and a video exchange shop lease space at the Broadmoor Theater. Ogden, owns 60 other properties in the Baton Rouge area and runs his property management office out of the Broadmoor Theater.
Once home to several movie screens the former Broadmoor Theater will be demolished in the next year to add more parking to the connecting shopping center.
However, the theater could be leveled sooner if the price is right, according to Baton Rouge area developer Randolph Ogden, who originally developed the theater nearly 50 years ago.
Though he's considered a tenant, operating his property management office out of the theater along Florida Boulevard, Ogden currently holds a 50-year land lease on the property that expires in August of 2015, and he brings in cash from two tenants he subleases to. "(Property owners) have not offered us enough money to leave. I'm bringing in $3,000 a month in rental income. There's no reason to walk away from that," Ogden said.
Austin Earhart of Beau Box Commercial Real Estate, the company developing the adjoining Broadmoor Village Shopping Center, said crews have already demolished the 42,000 square-foot building next to the theater.
Both will be demolished to make way for additional parking for the shopping center, which houses Planet Fitness, Family Dollar, American Cash Advance and the recently-relocated Hi Nabor grocery store.
The Broadmoor Theater opened in 1965 under the Ogden-Perry chain, one of 18 theaters Ogden owned throughout the South at the time. All were sold by 1987.
The theater was restructured several times, until ceasing operations in the late 1990s, but in 1998, reopened under different management. By 2004 the theater was closed again.
Since then, a teen nightclub tried operating out of the space and currently a recording studio and a video exchange shop lease space at the Broadmoor Theater. Ogden, owns 60 other properties in the Baton Rouge area and runs his property management office out of the Broadmoor Theater.
Posted on 9/26/14 at 9:14 am to LSUMJ
I saw Bambi, the Pink Panther movies, pretty much anything Disney in the 70's there
Posted on 9/26/14 at 9:15 am to LSUMJ
I remember my feet sticking to the ground in that theatre
Posted on 9/26/14 at 9:44 am to LSUMJ
I remember walking there from my house to see beavis and butthead do America in that theater. Good times.
Posted on 9/26/14 at 9:48 am to LSUMJ
Man that guy must be pretty old if he owned 18 movie theatres in 1965, or was a very savvy businessman for his age.
Posted on 9/26/14 at 9:58 am to LSUMJ
I took my first shite in a public bathroom in that place. I think I was 8 or so.
Posted on 9/26/14 at 10:08 am to LSUMJ
Is Wesley's still open next door? I might get a roast beef poboy with extra gravy, if they are still open.
Posted on 9/26/14 at 10:16 am to LSUMJ
My mom took me there to see pet cemetery for my bday when I was like 4
She just kept saying "I'm sorry Kyle." My brother and myself were loving it though
I have always loved horror movies
She just kept saying "I'm sorry Kyle." My brother and myself were loving it though
I have always loved horror movies
Posted on 9/26/14 at 10:44 am to LSUMJ
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Both will be demolished to make way for additional parking for the shopping center, which houses Planet Fitness, Family Dollar, American Cash Advance and the recently-relocated Hi Nabor grocery store.
I drive by that location every day. I never see the parking lot more than about 25% occupied. Why do they need more parking?
Posted on 9/26/14 at 10:56 am to LSUMJ
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Goodbye to the Broadmoor Theatre
I went on my very first date to see Herbie the Love Bug at the Broadmoor Theatre. My family went to see the James Bond movies there every year and countless movie nights with friends all through high school.
Miss the lady with the big red hair and the coral lipstick...
Posted on 9/26/14 at 2:56 pm to LSUMJ
My grandma's house was right around the corner from there off of Cora. I have many fond memories of that place. My brothers and I would walk or ride bikes to that shopping center from her house to buy comic books, used video games, and see matinee movies. I was deeply saddened when they closed. One by one, I had to watch the memories of my childhood fall by the wayside: The toy store in Cortana Mall, the arcade, the book store in the mall, the book store in broadmoor that sold comic books, Toys-R-Us, Bud's, the used games shop, Pancho's, the Broadmoor, and finally my grandmother's house. Soon, my grandmother may be added to that list as well. Thankfully, the rest of Baton Rouge (outside of Tinsletown) has vastly improved since then, but losing those landmarks of my childhood stung.
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