Developers are now planning to demolish the historic Sunshine Cinema on 139 E. Houston St. on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

New owners East End Capital and K Property Group have filed a demolition application with the city’s Department of Buildings to tear down the 108-year-old former vaudeville theater, according to reporting in The Lo-Down.

The demolition is not a certainty — but it is one of the possible plans for the theater. “East End is planning to re-develop the building into a mixed-use retail and office project. While pursuing tenants interested in utilizing the structure in its current form, work is also underway for a new, best-in-class office building with retail at the base,” according to the developers’ website.

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