Edmonton historical landmark
The Roxy Theatre was destroyed by fire in 2015. Recently, its iconic yellow sign returned, stirring great excitement in the community over the theatre’s projected reopening in 2022.
On the Tuesday, July 20, 2021 episode of
Traffic Jams, CKUA’s
EDMONTON A large crane towering over the Westmount neighbourhood has been brought in to help with the redevelopment of the old Roxy Theatre. The 500-tonne crane is currently dismantling a smaller crane on site that has lifted more than 1,000 cubic tonnes of concrete to build the structure. “This is huge progress, this means that the structure of the building is mostly maybe 95 per cent complete and now we work on the inside, the fun stuff, the finishes,” said Bradley Moss, Theatre Network Artistic executive director. The new Roxy is scheduled to open in November. “There will be the Nancy Power Theatre which will be a 200-seat theatre, and then downstairs what we call a black box a moveable seating and that is going to be called the Lauren Cardinal Theatre who’s from here,” said Moss.