The Coliseum Theater building, a Main Street landmark since 1918, is for sale by Gross Alaska, Inc., the Juneau-based family business that has owned it since 1930.

Krishna Smith, a computer programmer who moved to Haines a year ago and is interested in re-opening the building as a theater, is investigating buying it.

“If we were breaking even, or just staying a little bit out of the red, we’d still be operating it. Our family…