Avram Hornik of Lucy's Hat Shop, Loie, Noche, Drinker's Pub and Drinker's Tavern confirms that he is going into Front Street and Girard Avenue in Fishtown with a jumbo-size project.
The Jumbo Theater is a couple of properties totaling 10,000 square feet, but the bulk of it was the circa-1905 Jumbo Theatre (an -re theatre). Like many of the old opera houses, the Jumbo in the 1960s was converted into a warehouse and left to die.
The beauty of this project, Hornik says, is that the renovators added dropped ceilings and drywall. "All" he'll have to do it remove it and clean it and voila!
He wants to open a restaurant -- cuisine not known but it won't be high-end -- in the front, and add a performance space (comedy, music, etc.) in the back.
He hopes to open next spring.
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The old Jumbo can be seen at http://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchive/MediaStream.ashx?mediaId=18697 -- looking at the building now, it's hard to imagine it ever looked like that. I hope the inside's in better shape than the outside.
Posted by mike | August 19, 2008 7:06 PM
Posted on August 19, 2008 19:06