Las Vegas developer buying historic Huntridge Theater

By Alexis Egeland Las Vegas Review-Journal

5 years ago

The Huntridge Theater in Las Vegas (Justin Yurkanin/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

The Huntridge Theater in Las Vegas on Monday, May 19, 2014. (Justin Yurkanin/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Chairman of the nonprofit Friends of the Huntridge Richard Lenz on the roof of the Huntridge Performing Arts Theatre in January 1999. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Huntridge Theater (Review-Journal file)

An exterior view of the Huntridge Theater located at 1208 E. Charleston Blvd. Wednesday Nov. 26, 2008. (Review-Journal)

The Huntridge Theater in Las Vegas on Monday, May 19, 2014. The building and the sign were repainted in September of last year by the non profit Huntridge Foundation. The group is working to reopen the theater which was closed in 2004. (Justin Yurkanin/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Developer J Dapper, founder of Las Vegas-based Dapper Cos., is the man behind the potential Huntridge Theater sale, according to the city of Las Vegas.

“The city is working as a facilitator in this deal between the owner King George LLC and the buyer J Dapper,” city spokesman Jace Radke said Thursday in an email.

Radke said the City Council will vote on the transaction on Nov. 6.

Dapper was not immediately available for comment.

The theater, which opened in 1944, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. In July 1995, the roof collapsed hours before a concert, but no one was injured or killed. The Huntridge closed in 2004.

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