Early last year, it looked like everything was in place to save the Garland Theater from fading to black for the last time.
A three-person team passionate about saving the Garland had created a plan with a local developer, who purchased the property from its longtime owner and planned to build apartments in one of its parking lots to help subsidize the historic theater.
A year-and-a-half later, those 44 apartments are nearly finished and ready for tenants…