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Bijou By The Bay
The Bijou by the Bay () is a 150-seat nonprofit movie theater in a city park on Grand Traverse Bay in Michigan, next to the multi-use TART Trail. It is one of the venues for the Traverse City Film Festival. History The first new movie theater to open within Traverse City city limits in over 63 years sits in the Con Foster Museum building, originally built by President Roosevelt's Civil Works Administration in the 1930s. The museum sat vacant for many years until it was renovated into a fully accessible, state-of-the-art movie theater in 2013 by the same team, led by Traverse City Film Festival president and founder Michael Moore, who resurrected the State Theatre (Traverse City, Michigan), State Theatre in 2007. The renovation was made possible by a cornerstone donation from Richard and Diana Milock, the Bijou Founders, and hundreds of other individuals and community members who gave time and money to create a waterfront theater that has expanded the cinematic arts in Northern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bijou By The Bay
The Bijou by the Bay () is a 150-seat nonprofit movie theater in a city park on Grand Traverse Bay in Michigan, next to the multi-use TART Trail. It is one of the venues for the Traverse City Film Festival. History The first new movie theater to open within Traverse City city limits in over 63 years sits in the Con Foster Museum building, originally built by President Roosevelt's Civil Works Administration in the 1930s. The museum sat vacant for many years until it was renovated into a fully accessible, state-of-the-art movie theater in 2013 by the same team, led by Traverse City Film Festival president and founder Michael Moore, who resurrected the State Theatre (Traverse City, Michigan), State Theatre in 2007. The renovation was made possible by a cornerstone donation from Richard and Diana Milock, the Bijou Founders, and hundreds of other individuals and community members who gave time and money to create a waterfront theater that has expanded the cinematic arts in Northern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
