Nearly a century after audiences used a Mesquite Street entrance to walk into the Ritz Theatre, that historic piece of the original complex is once again part of the theater.
The Ritz Theatre, Inc. has purchased 720 N. Mesquite Street, a building constructed as part of the original Ritz complex when the theater opened on Christmas Day 1929.
The building originally contained a secondary entrance, box office, access hall and shops. The purchase comes just weeks after the Ritz acquired an adjacent vacant property where its new annex will be built…