[UPDATE] Solve This Puzzle! We Need Another Broadway Theatre!

There's an important update to this thread, and I can't change the title. I was advised to re-post as an update. I've also added it to the top of the OP:

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"OMG Update! I literally just stumbled across news about the Imperial. I knew a restoration/renovation was imminent, but am stunned to discover that the Shuberts DID buy the adjacent property mentioned in an earlier post and are apparently expanding the theatre into it.

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This directly affects the issue of new theatres. In anyone else's hands that parcel could have been turned into a new theatre, but the Shuberts were federally stopped from owning any more Broadway theatres around 1986 for violating anti-trust laws to prevent monopolies. The order was eased somewhat around the turn of the century, but they are under supervision and must obtain approval for any new acquisitions.

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This means Shubert deliberately prevented Nederlander and AKG from adding competition, while finding a way to profit themselves without violating their anti-monopoly order. The one-in-a-million chance for a new theatre... Just Wow. Just Ruthless."

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