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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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  • Rohan K
    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.
  • Zahid D.
    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...
  • Ted Avery
    Well that's the nature of coming to a young school. As they say, "Rome wasn't built in a day".
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