Construction on Facade of the Buildings Connected to the Ramova

As some of you may already know, there is some restoration work being done on the facade of the second floor of the store fronts that are just north of the Ramova. These store fronts were built at the same time as the Ramova, but were sold to individual owners in either the 1950s or 1960s, so they are not connected to the theater's future at all.

I have been told by some of the tenants that the restoration work is being done because there is a new gym being built on the second floor. I am not sure if this gym will be owned by the same tenants who had the gym before or by new tenants. I just went over and looked at this work this morning and so far it does seem as if this is the case. There was a company out fixing the truss roof today too.

As far as I can gather, the facade of the store front buildings will be restored to it's original form (roof tiles and terracotta are being restored) during this process and the brick work will be cleaned and left in tact.

I have contacted Alderman Balcer and the Department of Planning and Development, but have not been given an official answer about this construction work yet.

Hopefully this will help clear up some of the confusion about the facade of the store fronts and all of the scaffolding in front of the building.