New life for the Roxy Theatre in Shelby [Video]

SHELBY — In the video above, Aneesa Coomer reports on a group of people who are working to bring the Roxy Theatre in Shelby back to life.

Community members and business owners have came together to form the Roxy Theater Board of Trustees in an effort to reopen the Roxy Theater in Shelby.

After the Roxy Theater in downtown Shelby closed in 2019, it sat empty for five years until the building owners put it up for sale this past April. Noticing the ‘for sale’ sign, a group of six locals formed the Roxy Theater Group Board of Trustees, with a plan to purchase and restore the nearly eighty year old building. The board includes Jeanne McDonough, Melissa Flesch, Brice Kluth, Dr. Alan Bridge, Jade Goroski and Bill Hunt.

Bill Hunt, a board member on the Roxy Theater Group Board of Trustees, explains, “Myself and five others pretty much noticed …