We want to begin the renovation this week, and we plan to have our Grand Opening on July 29-the night before the beginning of this year’s Traverse City Film Festival! The Bijou by the Bay will be a unique and wonderful place to see a great movie. We will restore the Con Foster-originally built by President Roosevelt’s Civil Works Administration-with the same loving care and with the same team that resurrected the State Theatre in 2007.Īnd because it sits on the shores of our beautiful Grand Traverse Bay, we have decided to call this new theater the “Bijou by the Bay.” The Bijou (pronounced “BE-zhu,” the French word for “gem”) was a popular name for movie theaters in the 1930s and 1940s and we think it fits this new venue quite well. So, due to this overwhelming response to the State, we’ve asked the City Commission-and they have granted us - permission to renovate and bring back to life the 80-year-old (and long-vacant) Con Foster Museum, which sits behind the State Theatre on the beach in Clinch Park. For a town of 16,000 year-round residents, this is nothing short of incredible. Sometime within the next month we will sell our ONE-MILLIONTH ticket at the State! That’s right-one million people have passed through the doors of the State Theatre since it opened 5 1/2 years ago. We’ve talked for a while about adding a second screen to the State Theatre. We at the Traverse City Film Festival are going to open a SECOND year-round movie theater in downtown Traverse City! And we need your help.
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