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Located in at 487-503 George St, Sydney, near the Sydney Town Hall , it stood next door to the famed Sydney Trocadero dance hall, which was also demolished in 1970. The Regent operated as a cinema for most of its life, but from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s it was a popular venue for music concerts and stage shows. Regrettably, the Regent's size and prime location made it a prime target for avaricious property developers. It was purchased by Leon Fink who operated it as a venue for several years. In mid-1984, in defianace of heritage orders protecting it, the Regent was torn down illegally in the early hours of the morning, only a few weeks after a concert by American musician Ellen McIlwaine , the last performer to play there. The slump in the Sydney property market that followed meant that the site remained a vast hole in the ground until 2004, when work finally began on a new high-rise building complex. An exact lightweight plastic replica of the Art Deco crystal chandelier from the Regent's foyer now hangs in the foyer of the nearby The Metro Theatre ; redeveloped by Fink from a cinema, it is now the city's leading rock music venue. The fate of the original chandelier, from which the Metro's copy was made, is unknown. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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