Nebraska Methodist Health Systems, Inc.
In April 2001 it was announced that the theater and an adjacent office building had been sold to a local health care provider, Nebraska Methodist Health Systems, Inc. Nebraska Methodist is one of the largest health care providers in Nebraska and in Omaha operates Methodist Hospital, numerous clinics and the Nebraska Methodist College nursing college. The nursing college was located adjacent to the theater property.
The local newspaper, the Omaha World-Herald, in an editorial dated August 23, 2001, endorsed Nebraska Methodist's claim that it needed additional parking for the adjacent nursing college as one of the major justifications for demolishing the theater. The local newspaper did not report that, at the time it acquired the theater, Nebraska Methodist had already privately committed to moving the nursing college to a new site (the Josie Harper Campus) four blocks away across a busy street which would make nursing student parking at the theater property impractical. The nursing college has since moved to the Nebraska Methodist College Josie Harper Campus.
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