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October 9, 2009
Posted by Ted Avery

Oshawa’s Regent Theatre Bought by UOIT

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Regent TheatreGet ready to come for class and stay for a musical, because UOIT just got the OK to buy the Regent Theatre for class space in downtown Oshawa. It’s a logical next step in UOIT’s expansion to downtown Oshawa and will feature classes running during the day and at least 100 music/dance/theatre acts to run each year during the nights.

The theatre has been doing pretty much nothing since it showed up, having had only a few shows over the span of a few years, and there were some legal struggles between the city and theatre owner as well. It’s a fairly new and nice looking building too, so it’s nice to see UOIT take it over.

The back lot is going to be used for a five-storey building, also used by the school for classrooms, offices, and meeting space. The school is also asking for a 99 year lease on a total of 250 parking spaces, which is good news to the many students concerned about the lack of parking in downtown Oshawa.

Making an acquisition like this is a great way to quickly expand the school, and it is not uncommon. I remember when going to Ryerson University that a deal had just been made for the school to even use parts of the newly built AMC Theatre as class space, but I think we’re lucky to have a bit of extra class with the Regent Theatre.

Source: Council OKs transfer of Regent to UOIT (newsdurhamregion.com)

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  1. Zahid D.
    October 9, 2009

    Awesome, Justice and Criminology are moving downtown… Hopefully that'll free up some space for us … if we're still around.
    It seems everything's coming to this university too late for us to make any good of it…

  2. Rohan K
    October 10, 2009

    Zahid: They're saying next fall..so we should be around.

    However, I really hope that they're going to provide sufficient busing to go between the 3 campuses now (Main Campus, Faculty of Education, and Justice) for the sake of those students.

  3. Ted Avery
    October 10, 2009

    Well that's the nature of coming to a young school. As they say, “Rome wasn't built in a day”.

  4. Rohan K
    October 10, 2009

    Zahid: They're saying next fall..so we should be around.

    However, I really hope that they're going to provide sufficient busing to go between the 3 campuses now (Main Campus, Faculty of Education, and Justice) for the sake of those students.

  5. Ted Avery
    October 10, 2009

    Well that's the nature of coming to a young school. As they say, “Rome wasn't built in a day”.

  6. Sum_mi_786
    September 1, 2010

    what bus do we take to get there?

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