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jpletter17 - The Verona cinema in Sydney, which is due to be redeveloped into a six-storey shopping and entertainment site,  joins a long list of cinemas in Sydney that have been closed and repurposed. 


Photo credit: Jonathan Pearlman

The Verona cinema in Sydney, which is due to be redeveloped into a six-storey shopping and entertainment site, joins a long list of cinemas in Sydney that have been closed and repurposed.

ST PHOTO: JONATHAN PEARLMAN

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- On the night of Feb 21, one of Sydney’s landmark movie theatres, the Verona Cinema, a four-screen complex just outside the city centre, will hold its final screenings.

It will be a sorry night for cinemagoers. But it marks an all too familiar development in this city, where

ever-rising property prices

and changing entertainment habits have caused regular waves of cinema closures.

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