Developers and curious onlookers gathered at the steps outside Norfolk’s Circuit Court May 28. The building provided shade from the mid-morning sun, though the air was already sticky. At 11 a.m. sharp, bidding for the historic Riverview Theater started at $450,000.
Richard Levin owned the theater — located at 3910 Granby Street — in the 1990s. It sat empty for decades. He said he got a few offers from developers, but declined them all because they wanted to tear it down.
“I wasn’t going to do it on our watch,” he said…