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The Great Southern Hotel & Theatre is an historic hotel and theater building in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. The building currently operates as the Westin Great Southern Columbus and the Southern Theatre. It opened on September 21, 1896 and is the oldest surviving theater in Central Ohio and one of the oldest in the state of Ohio.
At the time of its 2020 closure, it was one of only three movie theaters in the world capable of showing three-panel Cinerama films. In 2023, the theater was purchased by the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) and reopened on December 14, 2023 as SIFF Cinema Downtown due to trademark issues with the "Cinerama" name.
Landmark continued to operate the Egyptian Theater until June 27, 2013, after the company declined to renew its lease with Seattle Central College. [5] SIFF took over the lease in May 2014 and raised $340,000 from crowdsourced donations to repair and reopen the theater. [6] The SIFF Egyptian Theater reopened on October 3, 2014. [7]
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They converted the property to the Sheraton Columbus Hotel at Capitol Square [3] and undertook a year-long $9.5 million renovation, completed in January 2013. [4] In 2016, The Plascensia Group sold the hotel to Schulte Hospitality Group. [5] In 2023, the hotel was auctioned off, selling for $9.6 million to Dallas-based hotelier Joshua Joseph. [6]
The Ohio Theatre is a performing arts center and former movie palace on Capitol Square in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. Known as the "Official Theatre of the State of Ohio", the 1928 building was saved from demolition in 1969 and was later completely restored. [3] [4] The theater was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977. [3] [5]