Inside Atchison's Fox Theater/Credit: Brian Hagen/MSC News

(KAIR)--Following nearly 5-years without, Atchison will again have a movie theater.

That comes as the renovation of downtown Atchison’s formerly unoccupied theater building comes to a close.

In October 2017, Theatre Atchison, the local home of community live theater, purchased the building, at 612 Commercial Street, with designing, planning, and fundraising following the purchase in order to fulfill the goal of what’s known as the Silver Screen Project.

The theater building last housed the Royal Theater, which closed in 2014. Prior to that, it was known as the Fox Theater, and the completely overhauled building will again use that name.

On Saturday, March 23, a donor party was held at the theater, and now, later this week, it’s the public’s turn to experience the renovation first hand.

MSC News Director Brian Hagen had a chance to tour the theater with Travis Grossman, Executive Director for Theatre Atchison, on March 15, for an inside look at the state-of-the-art facility.