Named for the Nickelodeon (ersatz Greek for "nickel theatre"), which opened in Pittsburgh in 1905, these theatres were makeshift facilities lodged in converted storefronts.
The area had an abundance of greenhouse space left over from the flower-growing days, so he invested in converting a facility that once produced roses.
The land on which Greer sits is currently owned by the Metro Parks department of Nashville's government, and Mayor Dean has expressed interest in converting the facility to a community sporting complex or a new city park.
The construction of new recreation facilities for workers reflected the Cuban government's interest in converting its lucrative and foreign dominated pre-revolutionary tourist industry for domestic use.
Missionaries, although largely unsuccessful in converting the Siamese to Christianity, set up the first Western medical facilities, secular schools, and printing presses in the country.
For example, Enerkem, based in Edmonton, Alberta, has opened a commercial facility to convert used utility poles into methanol and ethanol.
In 2006, Iran began operating a uranium conversion facility (UCF) at its nuclear research facility in Isfahan to convert yellowcake into three forms: Hexafluoride gas - used for enrichment processes, such as at Natanz and Fordo.
But to do so, EADS knows that with its likely American partner, Lockheed Martin it will have to invest heavily in American facilities to convert Airbus passenger jets for military use.
Catching structural glitches is so critical to the show that the walls of a conference room at the production facility, a converted warehouse in Woodland Hills, Calif., are plastered with spreadsheets, tracking every character.
"In our facility they converted our safe room into a conference room and teams worked out of the safe room for periods of time," says Haymes.
Instead, contractors operate facilities that range from a few cots in a church storage room to hundreds of bunks lined end to end in converted industrial buildings.
