(This story has been updated.)
WORCESTER — Built nearly a century ago, 24 Mill St. has housed multiple businesses, including one of the city’s first modern theaters and will soon be given new life as the Worcester Housing Authority has begun renovations with plans for a new office space.
Originally the building housed the Park Theater, which opened in 1937. The building suffered damage in a series of floods in the 1950s before reopening in the early 1960s as Cinema…1, which was later renamed the Webster Square Cinemas. Most recently the building was home to Sun n Sound, a car customization store…