The Wichita City Council will begin taking steps to prevent the demolition of the Crown Uptown Theatre.
The theater’s owner, Mike Brown, has applied for a demolition permit after multiple failed attempts to increase the theater’s capacity. He has said he can’t make the building profitable without putting on bigger concerts.
The council will decide at its meeting Tuesday whether to begin putting the theater at 3207 E. Douglas on Wichita’s Register of Historical Places…