THIS SHOULD BE ONE GOOD PARTY!

Beginning Thursday afternoon from the UofA Main Gate, to 4th Avenue, to Congress Street, La Placita and pretty much all downtown the celebration of the opening of the new 4th Avenue underpass will get underway – and keep going well into the evening.

Rendering from north side of 4th Ave. underpass

This should be fun. Make plans to go. Particularly, enjoy what this is all about – the linking, finally, of a continuous activity corridor from the UofA to downtown’s emergent arts, dining and entertainment center through 4th Avenue’s well-established cultural scene.

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BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME HAS GUIDED MICHAEL KEITH during years of determined persistence to renovate The Screening Room in one more step to revitalize downtown Tucson.

 Today the Screening Room renovation at 127 E. Congress to its original 1910 façade is underway. By October the work should be complete, with the film theatre sporting a new overhang movie marquee “that will establish our identity on the street,” Keith says.

Renovated Screening Room Concept Drawing

 It’s been a long road.

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