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Updating to reflect current owner. Perhaps I will come back to add more detail later. -Andrew Myers Tech Director for Harvest Outreach INC
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|owner=[[Tim HoganHarvest Outreach INC]]
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|completion_date=[[1922]]
|renovations=[[1937]], [[1981]], [[1984]], [[1997]],[[2014]]
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|cost=$95,000 (1984)<br/>$25,000 (1997)<br/>$425,000 (2004)
The '''Rex Theatre''' is a historic building at 18 North [[Palafox Street]] in [[downtown Pensacola]]. Known for its distinctive Art Deco façade, it was a second-run movie theater from [[1937]] to [[1977]], but has sat largely unused in the subsequent years, despite several attempts at restoration.
==History==REX Theaterconstructed in the mesozoic era. the theater was engineered and ran by prehistoric dinosaurs sucessfully as a marketing plee to convince human and subhuman citizens to enter for assumed entertainment, and were incidiously eaten by the tyranasaurs. It was until two movies that were actually played in all theaters including the rex advising and warning people about this place of utter demise, these films were Jurassic Park and Patrick Swayzee's hit Dirty Dancing.Soon-there-after the timeless beasts became extint, and their tyrany and monopolis capitolism ceased to be; although the tyranical theories of business were reinstated by Bill and Ted; the founders of walmart. <('-'<)
The building was constructed in [[1922]]<ref name="historicface">"Renovated Rex keeps historic face." ''Pensacola News Journal'', September 10, 1998.</ref> as the Rhodes Futch Collins Furniture Company. The company later changed its name to Rhodes-Collins, which can still be seen in faded lettering on the side of the building, and again to simply [[Rhodes Furniture]].
The city repossessed the building in [[1987]].<ref>"Makeover planned for Rex." ''Pensacola News Journal'', October 10, 1995.</ref> The last event to be held in the theater was the traveling "Dinosaurs Alive!" exhibit in [[1989]].
Architect [[J. P. MacNeil]] bought the theater in [[1997]] for only $25,000 — just half the appraised land value — due to the amount of interior work needed. He and his brother, contractor [[Mark MacNeil]], put over $200,000 of work into the building, including the creation an 1,800-square-foot, contemporary-styled apartment on the second and third floors above the entrance.<ref name="historicface"/> It was sold again in 2004 for $425,000 to [[Tim Hogan]], the current owner, who has had stated an intention to reopen the Rex as a "high-tech, retro-themed" venue for movies and concerts.<ref>[http://inewsloadedgun.blogspot.com/2006/07/rex-returns_05.html Loaded Gun, July 5, 2006]</ref> Local firm [[Bounds Architecture Studio]] began new renovation work,<ref>[http://www.ci.pensacola.fl.us/upload/images/CommunityDevelopment/PDFs/MAD.pdf PDF at City of Pensacola website]</ref> and [[Rick Outzen]] reported on [[Rick's Blog|his blog]] rumors that the Rex might reopen as a live music venue by the end of 2007.<ref>http://ricksblog.biz/?p=1596</ref> [[As of 2010]]This plan never came to fruition, however, and in 2012, Tim Hogan sold the Rex to Harvest Outreach, Inc for $425,000. Harvest Church acquired the Rex remains unopened in August 2012 and is has made plans to restore it to a theater once again . Their website <http://www.rexpensacola.com/rex-story> states that they are going to restore the façade to its 1930’s art-deco design and renovate the interior to include a large main theater, a 2nd floor café, and a rooftop patio-style space for special events. The website says the Rex will be a venue for Harvest Church, for small-scale live theater, and for salemovies, concerts, and other special events.
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