Patsy, I was the owner of what your are calling an “unauthorized foreign car body repair shop” . Let me clear your confusion . I bought the theater as an existing auto repair facility back in 1990 ,when it was a Volkswagen wrecking yard. I cleaned and restore many parts of it installed new roof . Some of the pictures are posted by me , in fact that old boat is mine , the City of Pittsburg used Eminent Domain Power to purchase the building from me. The remarkable part about it is that I saved the place from being demolished and turned in to a new office building site.
I spent 15 years of my life working to preserve this palace and my “unauthorized repair shop” helped pay for it. The Eminent Domain story is long an painful but is the past.
Best Regards
Jaime F. Penuela
HI Guys, I’m Looking for a Partner or Partners to operate the “ENEAN THEATER” in Pittsburg Ca , East San Francisco Bay Area. The plan is to open it as a Sport’s bar Movie Theater and Grill, for about 500 to 600 people. I have a great business plan , and the City’s Redevelopment Agency will help with a $280.000.00 loan , at 2 per cent, payments starting after the business is open. This is a great opportunity for the right investor(s), must have strong credit .
I’m looking to raise 1 to 2 million to purchase adjacent properties and equip with the latest technogy in the theater and restaurant
industry. It will be a unique place , a very lucrative business, we don’t have to compete with multy screen giants , we will have the other venues, Super bowl, fights, concerts , classic movies, business , educational , and studio facilities. Great restaurant and Bar as well as consession stand. 40x20 movie screen digital projection and sound, live performance stage and more .
All interested parties , please contact me at [/email]
Patrick,
Thanks for this wonderful web site, it has inspired me, and motivated my efforts to restore the Enean Theatre. If we are aproved a loan from “The Agency” (Pittsburg.Ca), we should be very close to be in compliance to open doors for business by late september this year.
Not so fast guys, you have to get past the City Of Pittsburg. In order to fulfill this dream, you have present a plan for the zonnig department and building department, that means a certificate of occupancy will have to be issued for that specific function or use.
The biggest thing will be restoring the palace and, retrofiting it for this day and time. New handicapped bathrooms will be needed as well as heating & ac, sprinkle system (“importante”), parking, lighting, etc; Then you can worry about, what you are going to show. Restoration process has to be done according to SHOP guides, if you want to benefit from a 20% tax incentive break from IRS. Bringing this place to Code, could cost 2 to 3 hundred thousand dollars before you think about your projection equipment and seats .
The good part about all this, is that, you can modernize everything according to your taste ,I’m talking “DIGITAL PROJECTION” new kind of equipment that transmits digital movies through a server “LINUX tecnnology , all this for about S150,000 dollars
you could show any movie that is available on DVD, even show weather and news programs, may be make it a” Cinema Cafe internet"
sports club. I don’t know, posibilities are very broad.The Patent Law , or cost of showing DVDs or any digital production is unknown to me ,I still have to reseach this. But trust me like “IF YOU BUILT IT, THEY WILL COME” no doubt.
Other factor to consider is parking space enough for 1000 people. That means a least 400 spaces. In other words you have to buy the neighbors on each side (they are both for sale)another 1.2 million. we are talking about 3 million for the whole thing …. not bad,“it takes money to make money”.
With the 20% rebate , you can run about 1 to 2 years before making profit. something like that is worth 3 times what you invested. There is no place to go in Pittsburg, this could change the city for ever and help the restoration of the “ California Theatre” as well, another Jewell from the past. If everything else fails,it will be an “Auto Parts Warehouse” , like the City’s “MASTER REDEVELOPMENT PLAN” dictates.
As you can see, this project is biger than my credit allows, Banks are not too happy about this type of ideas. That’s the reason I’m willing to sell or even consider a partnership with some one who want’s the “Enean Theatre” to come back, after 53 years of humiliation.
Federal historic preservation tax incentives are available for any qualified project that the secretary of interior designates as a certified rehabilitation of a certified historic structure.
-California Office of Historic Preservation(OHP)- www.ohp.parks.ca.gov
Patsy, I was the owner of what your are calling an “unauthorized foreign car body repair shop” . Let me clear your confusion . I bought the theater as an existing auto repair facility back in 1990 ,when it was a Volkswagen wrecking yard. I cleaned and restore many parts of it installed new roof . Some of the pictures are posted by me , in fact that old boat is mine , the City of Pittsburg used Eminent Domain Power to purchase the building from me. The remarkable part about it is that I saved the place from being demolished and turned in to a new office building site.
I spent 15 years of my life working to preserve this palace and my “unauthorized repair shop” helped pay for it. The Eminent Domain story is long an painful but is the past.
Best Regards
Jaime F. Penuela
HI Guys, I’m Looking for a Partner or Partners to operate the “ENEAN THEATER” in Pittsburg Ca , East San Francisco Bay Area. The plan is to open it as a Sport’s bar Movie Theater and Grill, for about 500 to 600 people. I have a great business plan , and the City’s Redevelopment Agency will help with a $280.000.00 loan , at 2 per cent, payments starting after the business is open. This is a great opportunity for the right investor(s), must have strong credit .
I’m looking to raise 1 to 2 million to purchase adjacent properties and equip with the latest technogy in the theater and restaurant
industry. It will be a unique place , a very lucrative business, we don’t have to compete with multy screen giants , we will have the other venues, Super bowl, fights, concerts , classic movies, business , educational , and studio facilities. Great restaurant and Bar as well as consession stand. 40x20 movie screen digital projection and sound, live performance stage and more .
All interested parties , please contact me at [/email]
Best Regards
Jaime Penuela
Patrick,
Thanks for this wonderful web site, it has inspired me, and motivated my efforts to restore the Enean Theatre. If we are aproved a loan from “The Agency” (Pittsburg.Ca), we should be very close to be in compliance to open doors for business by late september this year.
The vogue theatre is now a church, located about 2 blocks from the Enean. They did a super job.
Not so fast guys, you have to get past the City Of Pittsburg. In order to fulfill this dream, you have present a plan for the zonnig department and building department, that means a certificate of occupancy will have to be issued for that specific function or use.
The biggest thing will be restoring the palace and, retrofiting it for this day and time. New handicapped bathrooms will be needed as well as heating & ac, sprinkle system (“importante”), parking, lighting, etc; Then you can worry about, what you are going to show. Restoration process has to be done according to SHOP guides, if you want to benefit from a 20% tax incentive break from IRS. Bringing this place to Code, could cost 2 to 3 hundred thousand dollars before you think about your projection equipment and seats .
The good part about all this, is that, you can modernize everything according to your taste ,I’m talking “DIGITAL PROJECTION” new kind of equipment that transmits digital movies through a server “LINUX tecnnology , all this for about S150,000 dollars
you could show any movie that is available on DVD, even show weather and news programs, may be make it a” Cinema Cafe internet"
sports club. I don’t know, posibilities are very broad.The Patent Law , or cost of showing DVDs or any digital production is unknown to me ,I still have to reseach this. But trust me like “IF YOU BUILT IT, THEY WILL COME” no doubt.
Other factor to consider is parking space enough for 1000 people. That means a least 400 spaces. In other words you have to buy the neighbors on each side (they are both for sale)another 1.2 million. we are talking about 3 million for the whole thing …. not bad,“it takes money to make money”.
With the 20% rebate , you can run about 1 to 2 years before making profit. something like that is worth 3 times what you invested. There is no place to go in Pittsburg, this could change the city for ever and help the restoration of the “ California Theatre” as well, another Jewell from the past. If everything else fails,it will be an “Auto Parts Warehouse” , like the City’s “MASTER REDEVELOPMENT PLAN” dictates.
As you can see, this project is biger than my credit allows, Banks are not too happy about this type of ideas. That’s the reason I’m willing to sell or even consider a partnership with some one who want’s the “Enean Theatre” to come back, after 53 years of humiliation.
Thanks. Jaime
Federal historic preservation tax incentives are available for any qualified project that the secretary of interior designates as a certified rehabilitation of a certified historic structure.
-California Office of Historic Preservation(OHP)-
www.ohp.parks.ca.gov
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