Weirs Beach Drive-In For Sale
 

Hope this isn't new to just me
Heard the drive in at the Weirs is up for sale.
Anyone know if it's true. Sad if it is. Another piece of the past gone.

I think everything on that corner has been for sale. The burned out saloon has some work being done. Hopefully the dump drive-in will go too.
I believe the new zoning to 'residential' has caused some property owners to act. The drive-in has preliminary approval to be a concert venue for Motorcycle Week. Foxwoods Resorts is a partner in this potential event. The concert venue will hold up to 30,000 people. No announcement of what bands will play but a rumor making the rounds is Aerosmith. Boxing was supposed to be part of the event but that looks like a no go. Here's a link to today's story.

http://www.laconiadailysun.com/index...-for-bike-week

The Drive In is for sale at a whopping $2.5 MILLION dollars (read that in your best Dr. Evil voice)

I doubt it will be sold anytime soon as any development of the property would require additional access points. That will not happen without the purchase of ROW's from either Thurston's Marine or Faro's Italian Grille. Not to mention, depending on the type of development, there is sure to be opposition in some manner from local residents.

The property that the Saloon was on is being paved over. The building have been torn down, the lot graded. Probably pave it this week? They were asking $1.8 MILLION for that lot... I do not see it for sale on the MLS anymore, but it is essentially unbuildable due to current setback rules...

As far the Concert venue goes.... GOOD LUCK! 30,000 people?? WHERE? Where would they park? What about the infrastructure needed to support that many people? 30,000 people drinking are going to go in Porta potties? And let me get this straight.... after the concert 30,000 people are going to leave the facility right by the Weirs Beach sign?? That's already a Bike Week choke point....

Just to give you an idea of how many people 30,000 works out to be in a concert venue...

Meadowbrook Bank of NH Pavilion in Gilford seats 8,300 people...

Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester NH seats 10,050 people...

Xfinity Center in Mansfield MA seats 19,900 people...

TD Garden in Boston seats 19,600 people...

There is NO WAY the Weirs could support 30,000 people for a concert! The City of Laconia is out of their minds if they permit this!

Woodsy

Word on the streets is Aero Smith will be playing there on MC week-end. Don't ask me how I know...I just DO.

It will be interesting to see how two extremely loud concerts will work out. I'm about a half mile away across the channel from the bands that would play at the lobster pound and could sing along with them if I wanted to.

Two stages that close together just seems like it will ruin the experience for both.

Thanks Woodsy, you just saved me a lot of typing!

Call out the tanks and the national guard...
 

....If Laconia allows those large concerts on the Friday and Saturday nights of Bike Week, they are going to need the national guard. Seriously. I, too, have heard the Aerosmith rumor. Anyone remember their concert from the late 60's/early 70's where they hired The Hell's Angels to be their stage security? Some knucklehead strung out on recreational substances tried to storm the stage and guess what? Skewered on a sword by a Hells' Angels dude.

This just has disaster written all over it....!!!

not Aerosmith
 

I think it was the Rolling Stones and they paid the Hell's Angels in beer

That concert was also at Altamont Ca.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...bleed-19700121

got them confused....
 

stones and aerosmith.....both bands are: skinny, ugly, old, neither one can sing....I know it's hard to confuse them, but somehow I did..... :laugh:

Weirs Beach Drive-In For Sale
 

I saw this on WMUR's homepage.

http://www.wmur.com/news/weirs-beach...-sale/32990954

In today's LaDaSun article, the listing broker for this old drive-in movie property said it would require a buyer-developer with imagination, and it could become an 8-acre, waterfront retail shopping mall and restaurant venue that would unlock the potential of the Weirs.

... indeed! ...... bring it on! ..... let's get the waterfront shopping mall and restaurant venue construction rolling....plus don't forget the Wow Trail is designed for that spot too! ..... viva le transformation! .... with just a wee bit of imagination!

They need a developer . . .
 

because based on Debt Service, it's worth half of what they're asking.

Good grief.

Drive In
 

Geeez,
Saw the first Star Wars there.
My times are a changing!
Broaden that tax base rules.....wait that's only in Mass.

A large, gently sloping pre-cleared lot next to a beach.

The Weirs is going to lose yet another reason to visit and gain another subdivision of cookie-cutter homes/condos that are probably empty more often than occupied.

Weirs Drive In
 

I saw "The Phantom of The Opera" there when I was maybe 6.....50 yrs. ago...never been back since!

It was "Old Yeller" for me. Just reread the story on Wiki, since I only remember pieces of it. Sad story. I wonder what my parent were thinking?

Does this seem like a great opportunity for somebody with deep pockets to develop that land to become the beginning of the revitalization of Weirs Beach?
Rusty? Alex? :)

bout time. it's an eyesore.