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A man who identified himself as Skip Barry made the first and only bid of $100,000 at Tuesday's auction. "It's a fabulous location," Barry said minutes after the auction. He
CRANSTON — The Park Theatre is slated to be sold at auction Thursday at 2 p.m., an ignoble end to the former movie theater's second lease on life as a center for the performing arts. "It is a total facility," owner Piyush Patel crowed in 2009 as the theater was on the verge of reopening. "We can do theatrical concerts, have large-screen sporting events, have an orchestra. We can do almost anything." Reached Wednesday by phone, he was far less effusive. He did not want to talk about the impending auction, except to say that he may be able to avert the auction with a buyer he said is interest...
Auction of Cranston's Park Theatre postponed The auction house said the sale was postponed at the request of an undisclosed client. The theater's owner, Piyush Patel, who said on Wednesday that he hoped to find a traditional buyer and avert the auction, could not be reached immediately to say what was happening with the landmark building across from City Hall.