"I always said when I got my arms around the Divine Lorraine, then it was time to engage," he said. The timing for the Metropolitan, Blumenfeld said, is right. Broad as an anchor for a casino, retail and entertainment center, and hotel.Īcross Broad at Callowhill, meanwhile, the walls are going up on a new studio and offices for the Pennsylvania Ballet and its school. On that same block, Blatstein wants to use the former headquarters of The Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News at 400 N. Others are investing in the area as well.ĭeveloper Bart Blatstein is converting the former State Office Building at Spring Garden and Broad into apartments. Broad into loft apartments and worked with a partner to do the same at 600 N. Blumenfeld converted an old factory at 640 N. Hatcher first met Blumenfeld about a decade ago, when the developer was one of the few people touting the potential of North Broad. Jones bought the building and used it as a church until 1990.
Tours of the metropolitan opera house movie#
The Met was used as an opera venue until the 1920s, when it became a vaudeville theater, a movie house, a ballroom and later a venue for sports, including boxing, wrestling and basketball. Nijinsky danced there with the Ballets Russes. In a previous incarnation, the big stage was used for basketball games.īuilt in 1908 by Oscar Hammerstein I, grandfather of the famous Broadway lyricist, the four-story, white brick building was home to his Philadelphia Opera Company. And why not? In the wings of the old opera house are the remnants of basketball backboards. The MET does not have a dress code This trip requires a moderate level of walking Event Tickets are non-refundable.