Leicester Square

The Hippodrome Casino - Leicester Square was announced in July, 2015, with The Hippodrome Leicester Square taking over as the new Leicester Square venue. It also follows A&S Leisure's move last year when the cinema and theatre company moved into the Covent Garden site (it was previously called The Hippodrome). The Casino at the Empire is also perfect for all ages. With these two venues it is no wonder that Leicester Square lost several of its historic cinema theatre's in the past year, including the Palace Theatre, The Odeon Leicester Square, Leicester Square and The Imperial. The Crown and the Imperial were also the subject of a long-running dispute.

"In the last seven years, Leicester Square has lost its two biggest theatres and our reputation as a 'lonely' cinema town" The New York Times, March 20, 2016. The Times report on the reopening of Leicester Square shows a few sad events in the process of the new owners buyingtheatre. One of the main reasons behind the move was not being able to find a suitable landlord to run it – with just over three years until the opening of the new theatre, these types of issues with venues always seem to come up. Grosvenor Casino Leeds is situated right off the main railway line just outside to Loughborough and West Lothian railways station. For every change, there always seem to be changes.

Leicester Square serves as a focal point for more than 100 arts organisations who produce over 300 performances a year, and hosts some of the city's greatest festivals and cultural events.

But in the same article it also says thattheatre company has been given a very long lease for its existing theatre to run until the end of 2017 (which is an absolute bargain at the Leicester Square theatre's current rent of £75,000/day). What does this mean fortheatre's current tenants? It seems very likely that both the A&H and the Empire would remain in business but perhaps with a significantly lower standard of service to Leicester Square. The Hippodrome Casino mobile experience for phones & tablets is second to none. As for Leicester Square the future looks bleak for these businesses – if new owners are not found.

For a while there seemed to be a possibility that a deal between the owner and theatre's owners (the Leicester Theatre Company) was close to being struck with the hope of reopening some of Leicester Square's old sites. Theatre was the only theatre in the area to open a new film in 2009 (Chernobyl Reel) and its closing last year was a sad one. Grosvenor Casino Manchester is a family owned and operated business and has been operated for more than 20 years. But at this stagetheatre does not seem as dead as a doornail. It is just losing the services that used to make it thrive - but that could change in a hurry.

Leicester Square has been closed for the last two months due to a lack of film in the area. At first I was sure it was a temporary closure but when I visited on Saturday night I found the place largely deserted. Hippodrome Casino Rake is the largest venue in the world by owning one million seats and providing one of the world's oldest sporting arenas. Theatre had to close as the main tenant, the Leicester Theatre Company, has decided to move in.