Landmarks panel returns Paramount project to drawing board

by William Kelly
Communications Coordinator

The Landmarks Preservation Commission reviewed on Wednesday a modified plan to renovate the historic Paramount Theater building and add an adjacent residential and retail component with subterranean parking.

Commissioners said the design is moving in the right direction, but that the applicant needs to further reduce the mass of the residential development to be less imposing and more in scale with the historic theater building.

The applicants, owner Lester Woerner and his son, Trent Woerner, operating under the name WEG Paramount LLC, are requesting commission approval for the renovation and adaptive re-use of the landmarked theater building at 139 N. County Road.

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