In a close vote, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday against designating the orchestra-level seats in the iconic Castro Theatre as a historical landmark.
Supervisors voted 6-4 to landmark parts of the interior of the Castro Theatre -- the city's oldest and longest-operating single-screen movie house - but not include the theater seats that its management wants to remove.
Last week, the Castro Merchants Association, a group that also previously detested the plans, also voted to no longer oppose the renovations. "Reasonable minds can disagree on the different visions for the Castro Theatre, and the likelihood of some alternative to the APE project being able to proceed in a way that will not result in an indefinitely shuttered Castro Theatre," Mandelman said.
"It's important to note that physical seats are not what brings the Castro to life, people do. That's why we must create spaces where a new generation can make new memories in a magnificent old building outfitted for the future," he said."A theater completely preserved in amber and closed will not help the Castro neighborhood -- a thriving theater will."
"I believe that unless a genuine effort is made to develop robust and enforceable condition of APE's use with real community oversight, this is a rift that will last and not be healed for a long, long time," Peskin said.
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