Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Historic Plaza Needs Buyer To Continue Town Legacy

WAITSBURG - Robbie and Mari- lyn Johnson hope the person who buys the Plaza Theatre from them will bring it to life for the community. The couple put the mission-style theater on the market recently for $499,000.

"We know that there are people out there (who want it)," Robbie Johnson said. "We hope there's somebody who has the vision."

The Johnsons purchased the Plaza on April 1, 2004, from the Sickle Family and have spent the last eight years renovating the apartment upstairs, the bathrooms and shop spaces downstairs as well as the auditorium.

He said his favorite memories of the plaza were w...

 

Reader Comments(0)