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DESCRIPTION:PROTEST RALLY TO BE HELD IN DOWNTOWN ALAMEDA SATURDAY JULY 23RD 10:00 am  
 (Alameda, CA July 20, 2005) Citizens for a Megaplex-Free Alameda, will hold 
 a rally on Saturday July 23rd beginning at 10:00 am to protest the building 
 of a 7-screen multiplex and a 6-level parking structure next to the 
 Historic Alameda Theater in Alameda’s Historic Civic Center.  The group 
 is committed to the full restoration of the Historic Alameda Theater and 
 opposed to its being used as a “storefront” to the new structures.  
 Built in 1932, this Art Deco, three screen movie palace was the last of the 
 eight theatres designed "from scratch" by Timothy Pflueger,  architect of 
 the beautifully restored Paramount Theater in Oakland.  The City of Alameda 
 currently has plans to utilize the Historic Alameda Theater as an entrance 
 into a new “Big Box” type cineplex to be built next door with an 
 accompanying 6-level “Big Box” parking structure.  Citizens of Alameda 
 are understandably up in arms at the potential of this project to turn 
 their unique bike and pedestrian friendly downtown civic center area into a 
 cookie cutter image of suburbia and to denigrate the grandeur of their 
 precious historic theater.  Citizens are also up in arms about the fact 
 that the City of Alameda is using its newly trumped up powers of eminent 
 domain to take the Historic Alameda Theater from its current owner and hand 
 it over to another private owner – the out of town developer Kyle Conner 
 for personal gain.    Conner has  plans only to partially restore the 
 Alameda Theater.  Instead, he is focusing his attention on the new cineplex 
 and parking garage which has left many, many Alameda citizens outraged.  
 The rally, to be held on Saturday July 23rd at 10:00 am at the corner of 
 Central Ave. and Oak Street in Alameda will feature pairs of 36” black 
 helium balloons flying at approximately 60’ heights to approximate the 
 height of the proposed “Big Box” cineplex.  Press is invited to attend. 
  For further information contact Valerie Ruma at 510-522-2208 or email:  
 valerie@inkgraphics.com or visit http://www.stopalamedamegaplex.com.  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/07/20/71693.php
SUMMARY:Citizens for a Megaplex Free Alameda Rally
LOCATION:At the corner of Central Ave. and Oak Street in Alameda, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/07/20/71693.php
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