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Determining a new purpose for a former adult theater on the South Side likely will be a lengthy process, said the executive director of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp., the building’s new owner.

The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. purchased the Foster Art Theatre primarily to close the pornographic movie venue.

The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation has acquired a former adult theater in Youngstown with a lot of history.

The Foster Theater on Glenwood Avenue was originally built in 1938 and began as a movie theater.

Four hundred years ago, epic English poet John Milton lamented the downfall of civilization as he knew it in his masterpiece work titled “Paradise Lost.”