Owners Intend To Sell Fairfield Community Theatre Property

FAIRFIELD, CT — The long-vacant Fairfield Community Theatre may soon receive the new lease on life that residents have been seeking. More than 4,000 people recently signed an online petition, launched by Keith Rhodes, that called on the “current owners—David Pollack and his family—to sell the property as soon as possible to allow for the theatre's timely redevelopment and restoration as a performing arts space.”

In an update, Rhodes wrote that he has spoken to David Gorbach, President of Colonial Realty and representative for David Pollack as it relates to the Community Theatre, several times over the past three weeks and “on each occasion David has confirmed David Pollack's full intention to sell the property that includes the Fairfield Community Theatre!”

“While I've been waiting on specific details to make a formal announcement, Mr. Gorbach once again informed me late last week that that they are making final preparations for sale and that I could go ahead and make an announcement to the community and petitioners,” Rhodes wrote on the change.org page. “I still do not have final timing, but I understand that it's only a matter of days or weeks before the listing is formalized and announced. It is my understanding that they will pursue sale through a Request for Proposal and sealed bid process.”

Rhodes, who was appointed to the town’s Economic Development Commission in late 2016, said in the initial petition that there have been many attempts to revitalize the property since it closed in 2011 but they have been repeatedly turned down by the owners.

“We are delighted with this announcement and our ability as a community to show how important the Fairfield Community Theatre is to all of us,” Rhodes wrote in this week’s update. “We are also thankful and indebted to David Pollack and the Pollack Family Trust for the Pollack family's contribution to the town of Fairfield and for their support in helping the community build a vision for the future of Fairfield - for our children, community and the local economy.”

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