Downtown Mobile’s Crescent Theater has been dark since a March 24 screening attended by a lone viewer, and barring the arrival of a white knight with about half a million dollars in hand, it appears the beloved venue’s 14-year run is over. 📽️
Like a cat, the venue always seemed to have another life left in it. In September 2022, however, the Film Society announced that the Crescentbecause the theater’s rent, which ticket sales and donations had barely kept covered, was about to increase steeply.
Morey expressed frustration with the way negotiations had gone. So did John Switzer, the building’s Pensacola-based owner. So did Jordan.Note: Jordan isn’t a newcomer at this. He previously bought another downtown landmark,across the street from the Crescent. So he’s got experience running a legacy business whose fortunes are tightly linked to the ebb and flow of downtown life. “As downtown Mobile goes, the Peanut Shop goes,” he said. “I’m happy with it.
Switzer remains disgruntled by the Crescent Theater Film Society’s announcement back in September that the theater would have to close because the landlord was doubling the rent. He was raising it from $3,000 to $5,000, he said, so “doubling” was an exaggeration. And the jump, he said, was just bringing it up to fair market value.
“He is not a bad guy for wanting to get as much rent as he can for his property,” she said. When he decided last fall that he had to hike the rent, she said, the price was too high for the Film Society, which opted not to renew its lease. Switzer’s decision to let the theater operate for months after that, rent-free, as negotiations continued was “remarkable,” she said.
Morey, whose passion for movies has been on display in everything the Crescent has done for 14 years, certainly feels that way. He remains bullish despite everything: The transition to digital, the rise of streaming services, the impact of the pandemic. The Crescent’s daily screenings provided a reason, rare at the time, to be downtown at 6 p.m. That became the seed of something that grew, Hunter said. Now you could have dinner or drinks before or after a movie. There was “an anchor for that shoulder time of day.”
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