Under the Granada's Marquee, the Last Season of Shows Runs Through April 17

"You will enter Bathhouse the same way you'd enter the Granada, under the marquee," Bathhouse co-founder Travis Talmadge told The Dallas Morning News. "From there, it will feel like a very different experience."

That quote explains what is changing on this stretch of Greenville Avenue. Wilshire Heights sits between Lakewood and Lower Greenville, and from the street the corner should look much the same in 2028 as it does this week. The neon tower that has lit the block since January 1946 is staying. The stage, the murals as a concert backdrop and the restaurant next door are all going, and the room has until April 17, 2027.

The outside stays and the inside changes

On October 23, owners Mike Schoder and Julia Garton announced that the Granada Theater and Sundown at Granada would close and that Bathhouse would take over the site, as Advocate Lakewood reported. According to CandysDirt.com, the couple sold the properties to Bathhouse. The Morning News reported what the buyers plan for each part of the property:

• Staying: the theater's facade, its marquee and most of the exterior
• Converted: the stage becomes saunas and steam rooms, and the bar becomes thermal pools
• Demolished: Sundown at Granada, to make room for a bigger building

Schoder told the paper that past offers for the roughly two acres "just wanted the dirt" and "wanted to scrape everything." The owners' own statement on the Granada's website says the same thing more plainly:

"We turned down developers who envisioned hundreds of apartments and searched for a way to keep the music playing. Ultimately, we found a new future for this corner of Greenville Avenue with a concept called Bathhouse."

So the building's outline will survive. Its use as a concert hall ends.

Why the room matters more than the sign

The inside of the Granada was what made it special. WFAA reports that the theater opened on January 16, 1946, as a movie house run by Phil Isley Enterprises. Raymond F. Smith designed it with 950 seats, and its hand-painted murals were made by artists who also worked on Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.

After a short run as a concert hall in 1977, it went back to showing movies. Schoder reopened it as a full-time music venue on August 18, 2004. A 2020 renovation brought back the original paint colors and showed off the murals and Art Deco details again. According to WFAA, the room holds about 1,000 people standing or 500 seated. It has averaged about 150 concerts a year and had hosted more than 3,000 concerts and private events as of 2026.

The owners' ties to the street go back further than the theater. Their statement mentions 34 years on Greenville Avenue, which counts CD World. Schoder opened the record store in 1992, a short way up the avenue, and sold it in 2008. The 2020 restoration put the murals back on display, and that is the part of the building Talmadge describes as a "very different experience."

Sundown has already closed

The restaurant went first. Sundown at Granada served its last regular day on November 1, 2026. Private events continue through December 31. It opened next door in 2012 as part of the theater. For a full restaurant buyout it holds up to 250 people, and the private rooftop holds up to 100. If you hoped to hold a holiday party or a farewell dinner there, the private-event calendar is the only option left, and it ends with the year.

What's left on the calendar

The Granada says all scheduled shows will go on. The late-October run with Ray Wylie Hubbard, The Linda Lindas, Rhett Miller and Dinosaur Jr. ended November 2. As of late October 2026, the venue's calendar listed these dates starting this week:

The calendar thins out after New Year's. December has eight listed dates, while February and April have one act each. Foy Vance's two nights on April 3 and 4 are the last named shows, nearly two weeks before the April 17 closing date. The owners' statement promises "one last run of shows, one last round of memories, and one heck of a farewell ahead," but no act has been announced for the final night yet. If you want to be there at the end, check the calendar regularly through winter.

Tickets, parking and the walk over

Prices vary a lot depending on the show. In late October 2026, the total at checkout on Prekindle, the venue's ticketing site, ranged from $19.44 for Kawaii Rave to $65.99 for The Damned.

Parking is old-school. The Granada's FAQ says the lot directly behind the theater costs $8, cash only. Street parking is available in the surrounding neighborhood, and the venue asks drivers to obey no-parking signs and respect residents. Big shows tend to fill the side streets near Lower Greenville quickly. If you live in Wilshire Heights, you can skip both the cash-only lot and the hunt for a curb spot by walking or getting dropped off.

Bathhouse, and the 2028 date

The buyers are Travis Talmadge and Jason Goodman, who founded Bathhouse in New York. The Morning News reports that the company started in 2019 in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood and then opened two more New York locations. It has also announced projects in Philadelphia, in a renovated 1904 hotel, in Los Angeles, in the former Amoeba Music building on Sunset Boulevard, and in Chicago. The Bathhouse website describes each location as offering thermal pools, saunas, steam rooms and treatments. Talmadge told the Morning News that the company also looked in Knox-Henderson, the West Village and Uptown before a local broker suggested the Granada about a year ago.

Reports disagree on when it will open. The Morning News says mid-2028. The Dallas Observer and WFAA say late 2028. Either way, the corner will spend more than a year as a construction site after the last show.

There has been one clarification since the announcement. In a follow-up report from WFAA, Talmadge said Bathhouse is winding down a program that used Bitcoin mining heat to warm its pools and will not use it in new projects, including Dallas.

Some fans also want a different outcome. CandysDirt.com reported that a Change.org petition to keep the Granada running as a music venue launched the Friday after the announcement and had more than 1,000 signatures by Saturday evening.

Where Granada-sized shows go after April

Tours that would have played the Granada after April will still come to Dallas, just to other rooms. The Morning News named the Kessler Theater, the Echo Lounge, Trees, Canton Hall, the Majestic Theater, House of Blues, the Rustic and Legacy Hall in Plano as likely places for those shows. None of them is on Greenville Avenue, and none has the 1946 murals. That is why the remaining dates matter if you've lived near the Granada for years.

Big changes on a commercial corner tend to raise questions about the homes around it. If you live in Wilshire Heights and want to talk through how the Granada sale and a 2028 reopening could affect your street, Christi Weinstein and her team can help. Request Your Free Home Valuation.