Photos hit social media showing every orchestra-level seat pulled out of the former Proctor’s Theater, the building Mantello was converting into city hall. The images landed awkwardly against earlier administration assurances about preserving the theater’s historic character. A city communications director said the seats would go back in and floated an “adopt a seat” program.
What no one disputed: the project carries no legal obligation to preserve anything, because it does not use historic preservation tax credits.
Source: WAMC