ANCIEN CINÉMA RENAISSANCE

This building bears its name well, because after having housed the Renaissance Cinema which closed its doors in 2001, a fire destroyed it in 2020 while a rehabilitation project was underway. It is the first projection room in Guadeloupe. It was inaugurated in 1930 and replaced the theater dating from the early nineteenth century which was also destroyed by fire in 1882.

Twenty years after its closure, this emblematic place of 900 m² is finally preparing for a new future with the implementation of the works of its facade which will be rebuilt identically with all the structural elements registered as Historic Monuments. The demolition work, amounting to 1.5 million euros, took place in early 2022. A budget covered by the State up to 1 million euros and 500,000 euros by the community of agglomeration of CAP Excellence (which includes the cities of Abymes, Pointe-à-Pitre and Baie-Mahault). This first stage is part of a project to revitalize the historic center, which aims to give a new attractiveness to the city of Pointe-à-Pitre. This operation includes in particular the rehabilitation of the sub-prefecture building, to meet the current paraseismic standards. The second phase consists in finding a private investor in charge of the reconstruction of the building and to carry out one or several economic activities there, the orientation of which remains to be defined.