keywords: palace balcony arch stairs mural
text: The great wide-open When Aloft Group Inc. chief executive Matt Bowen first saw the Strand Movie Palace, the balcony stairs that Saturday matinee crowds once used were crumbling. Rain was dripping into the projector room, and the upper half of a proscenium arch, a mural probably created as a Works Progress Administration project in the early '30s, was layered in dirt.