New Photos of the Westmont

The other week members of the NCW, township officials, an architecture firm and a construction company went back inside the Westmont to review the current conditions inside the building. Below are a few pictures taken during that review.

Outer Lobby

Inner Lobby

“Main” Auditorium

Other angle of “Main” Auditorium

Projector Booth

Balcony

Backstage

“Cabaret” Auditorium

Upcoming NCW meeting

The next NCW meeting will be held on Wednesday July 15th at 7pm in the story room at the Rohrer Memorial Library, in Haddon Township.

We strongly encourage anyone who has an interest in preserving the Westmont Theatre as a film and performing arts venue to attend this meeting.

‘Westmont Theatre a Step Closer to State Historic Registry’

Further details on the historic registry process are available in this week’s The Retrospect.

“Famed Hollywood director Stephen Spielberg’s childhood movie house moved a step closer to a listing on state and, potentially, national historic register designation. Haddon Township officials, though, are contemplating fighting the proposed designation…” Read More

Photos from historic registry meeting

A member of the NCW took some photographs at yesterday’s meeting. They weren’t premitted to take pictures inside the meeting room, but we have a few images that we can share with you.

Westmont receives historic registry

The Westmont Theatre was approved for the state’s historic registry!!!

More information on this to follow…

Registry Application Meeting is Tomorrow!

The NJ Historic Preservation office, in Trenton, is meeting tomorrow to review the latest series of registry applications, including the one for the Westmont. A handful of NCW members plan to attend to this meeting. Rest assured the minute we hear the committee’s decision we’ll post that information on the site!

‘Twp. Wins Judgment on Westmont Theater’

In this week’s edition of The Retrospect is a more detailed story on the recent court ruling on the Westmont Theatre.  The story also includes updates from two of the three RFP developers who pitched theatre proposals at the June 2008 public meeting: Fieldstone and The Retzler Group.

“The future of the Westmont Theatre appears to be back under control of HaddonTownship leaders. At Tuesday night’s commissioners caucus meeting, Mayor RandyTeague announced… Read More

Please note there are two sentences within The Retzler Group portion of this article that need to be clarified:

“Warshauer added that he had spoken to members of Friends of the Westmont Theatre, a group that formed last year to support restoring the Westmont as a full-fledged theater, just last week.” The ‘Friends of the Westmont’ was a concept in June 2008 but never formed as a group. If Mr. Warshauer meant to infer the ‘Neighbors Celebrating the Westmont’, that is also inaccurate. The NCW is not in-line with Retzler, or any other developer from the June 2008 RFP public meeting.

“He noted that Allen Hauss, an authority on the history of South Jersey theaters had also visited him recently.” Mr. Hauss did not visit Mr. Warshauer. Neither Mr. Hauss nor anyone else from the NCW has seen Mr. Warshauer since June 2008.

‘Judge clears way for Westmont Theatre work’

In this morning’s South Jersey edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer is an article on the court ruling between the township and the Westmont Development Group (WDG).  Below is an excerpt from that article, which is in Section B, page 3 of the South Jersey edition.

“A federal judge set the stage for the transformation of the decaying Westmont Theater this week by lifting an injunction against local officials who want to… Read More

Westmont & NCW gear is now online

We recently added a CafePress account and are now offering Westmont & NCW clothing, hats, mugs, etc… More options and designs will get added down the road. For now we’re starting with the basic NCW logo on t-shirts, sweatshirts, hats and mugs.

If you’re interested in showing off your support for the Westmont or the NCW, take a moment and check out our Westmont Theatre Shop at CafePress!

Waiting for June 23rd

There’s not much going on Westmont-wise right now.

Everyone  is waiting till June 23rd, when the Westmont historic application is up for review at the New Jersey Historic Preservation docket in Trenton.

Stay tuned…