Park Slope residents and community-group reps who had planned to offer testimony at the preservation agency’s Lower Manhattan headquarters about the makeover of the 1920s-vintage movie house at 188 Prospect Park West and the construction of a new residential building next door to it should mark their calendars. The hearing date has been changed to Tuesday, Aug. 18.

The proposed design calls for the demolition of a single-story building at 190 Prospect Park West, the former home of Circles, a now-departed restaurant.

In the plan devised by Morris Adjmi Architects, there would be a total of 24 condos and 16 parking spaces in the new building and the upstairs floors of the neo-Renaissance-style Pavilion building — and a first-floor cinema that would be smaller than the existing nine-screen theater.

The developer is Hidrock Realty. The firm paid $16 million for the theater building in 2006 and bought 190 Prospect Park West for $3,090,750 in 2012, city Finance Department records indicate.  

At a July 23 meeting of the Community Board 6 Landmarks Committee, numerous Park Slope residents criticized the Pavilion’s proposed makeover. The committee voted its conditional approval of the design with several caveats.

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