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That meeting was originally set for this week but the city said Wednesday that it had to be postponed for scheduling reasons. San Francisco leaders made the exterior of the building a landmark decades ago. The Historic Preservation Commission is set to vote June 15 on a certificate of appropriateness that Another Planet needs in order to make major changes to a city landmark.

“An irreplaceable international icon now has the ability to be preserved, restored and to evolve for this and future generations,” Perry said.īut the supervisors’ vote is not the final word on the project. A thriving theater will.”ĭavid Perry, a spokesman for Another Planet, thanked supervisors in a statement after the vote and said it was good news for all who appreciate the theater and its surrounding neighborhood.

“A theater completely preserved in amber and closed will not help the Castro neighborhood. “Physical seats are not what brings the Castro to life - people do,” said Supervisor Joel Engardio. That means a majority of the board does not currently want to stop Another Planet from removing the Castro Theatre’s 800 orchestra seats and replacing them with motorized platforms that can allow for both seated film screenings and standing-room-only concerts. The ordinance, which the board later passed, instead referred to “the presence of seating.”

Supervisors voted 6-4 Tuesday to exclude language about the theater’s street-level fixed seating arrangement from an ordinance that makes the inside of the building a landmark.

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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has chosen not to designate the Castro Theatre’s orchestra seats a city landmark, a win for Another Planet Entertainment’s proposed renovation of the century-old movie palace. On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted not to designate the theater’s orchestra seats a city landmark, paving the way for interior renovations by the new owner. The exterior of the Castro Theatre building was given landmark status decades ago.

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