We loved going there when it was first built. Was quite the place in its heyday.

It still is! I see a movie or two a month there and it’s always busy, especially on Tuesdays. Love the luxury recliners and am sad we’ll be losing half our downtown screens. I wish they could relocate, but sadly theatres seem to be a dying industry, especially given the space required.

Any idea if the landmark tree inside will be relocated somewhere?

The longtime home of the Capitol 6 Theatre in Victoria will be redeveloped into commercial and office space but plans also leave the door open for other public uses.

Council in early October gave the final go-ahead to Jawl Properties’ 10-storey project – called Capitol VI in an ode to the theatre’s history. The new building has a three-storey podium base that will sit along Blanshard Street between Yates and View streets, before the upper floors are set back.

The inside of the podium will be built so it can possibly be used as a new downtown library, a YMCA-like facility, post-secondary school space or other uses, but those details will be finalized closer to construction. The five commercial units look to house a number of cafes and restaurants, along with a retail store.

https://www.vicnews.com/news/capitol-6-theatre-to-be-replaced-by-commercial-building-in-victoria/?utm_source=second-street&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VNE+-+Morning+Alert

I don't understand who decided this was going to be the "grey" district. A showcase of modern architecture in various shades of grey. If it doesn't seem like too much now, then imagine when the brick of the Capitol 6 is gone.

I don't understand who decided this was going to be the "grey" district. A showcase of modern architecture in various shades of grey. If it doesn't seem like too much now, then imagine when the brick of the Capitol 6 is gone.

Unfortunately, monochromatic buildings (or permutations of black, grey, and white) are quite in vogue right now. Just look at HP2. I’ll be sad to see the architectural interest of the Capitol 6 glass dome (which was just re-done less than 10 years ago) and it’s immense fig tree disappear. I would have loved to have seen an homage to the original YMCA building and Capitol Theatre which stood there previously in the new building; both were old red brick buildings, with the Y similar to the arched window ‘Nelson’s Music’ Facade off Quadra and Mason, and the Theatre similar to the McPherson Playhouse. Sadly, it seems few are interested in adding much visual interest into the designs of buildings nowadays. The new design really harkens back to the international style of the 1950s, but I don’t personally care for that modernist style much.