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City, preservationists at odds over fate of Morgan Hill’s Granada Theatre
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CSWalczak
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July 29, 2010 at 7:40 am
MORGAN HILL, CA — Preservationist-minded citizens are challenging the City Council which favors tearing down the 1952 Granada Theatre to build a mixed use housing and retail development. Although a business plan to renovate the theater as both a cinema and a mixed-use entertainment venue has been presented, council members feel the theater is not historically signficant and think a construction of a new cinema would be preferable. Current mayoral candidates are on opposite sides of the issue.
But a group of citizens and local businesses say saving and renovating the Granada as a local entertainment center is key to the revitalization effort, and are making a last attempt after 18 months of battles through a petition drive to put the future of the theater on the November ballot.
“We think we’ve put out a fairly compelling business model,” said Stephen Beard and Pamala Meador of the Save the Granada Foundation. “But we’ve been blocked every step of the way.”
The story is in the Contra Costa Times.
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we are a community group that trys and restore older theaters, and bring life to what was, we need chairs, so since most we can not save all of the theaters wish we could, right now we need chairs for all the nostalgic creative viewers here keep your ears open and let me know if you hear of theater seats which are available….
especially to keep history afloat…..
Candice
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