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Alameda Megaplex Rally, Sat. July23
Citizens for a Megaplex Free Alameda:
PROTEST RALLY TO BE HELD IN DOWNTOWN ALAMEDA SATURDAY JULY 23RD 10:00 am
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 [at] inkgraphics.com or visit http://www.stopalamedamegaplex.com.
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 [at] inkgraphics.com or visit http://www.stopalamedamegaplex.com.
For more information:
http://www.stopalamedamegaplex.com
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I'll be there!
I may have to move away from Alameda soon, but I really came to love this place after living here for just one year, and the thought of putting that thing in here is really infuriating. I went to one of the planning board meetings and I was surprised to see so many people there so late at night, all quietly sitting in the chambers until 11.
It's like a refuge from a lot of the areas around the East Bay and the megaplex will really trash that.
I may have to move away from Alameda soon, but I really came to love this place after living here for just one year, and the thought of putting that thing in here is really infuriating. I went to one of the planning board meetings and I was surprised to see so many people there so late at night, all quietly sitting in the chambers until 11.
It's like a refuge from a lot of the areas around the East Bay and the megaplex will really trash that.
Yesterday's Don Roberts Show with Two Opponents of the City's Megaplex Not Broadcast by Alameda Power & Telecom
Yesterday, viewers who tuned into Channel 31 at 6:30 p.m. on Alameda Power and Telecom expecting to see two opponents of the City's proposed megaplex and six story parking garage, were instead shown a graphic indicating that the channel was having technical problems. Roberts said that a representative of AP & T phoned him about 6:25 p.m. and told him that an unknown problem had removed the station's ability to transmit sound on the TV shows. The representative did not have any explanation as to what caused the problem, but merely indicated that the 6:30 p.m. show would not be broadcast and that the 9:00 p.m. broadcast of the Don Roberts Show would probably also not be broadcast. Roberts said he received a number of phone calls from viewers, some of whom alleged that the City did not want the show broadcast on its cable TV system.
Coincidentally, the 3:30 p.m. live broadcast of the Don Roberts Show on Comcast Cable TV Channel 28 was also not broadcast. However, the tape replay of that show was broadcast by Comcast at its regular time of 6:30 p.m.
Yesterday, viewers who tuned into Channel 31 at 6:30 p.m. on Alameda Power and Telecom expecting to see two opponents of the City's proposed megaplex and six story parking garage, were instead shown a graphic indicating that the channel was having technical problems. Roberts said that a representative of AP & T phoned him about 6:25 p.m. and told him that an unknown problem had removed the station's ability to transmit sound on the TV shows. The representative did not have any explanation as to what caused the problem, but merely indicated that the 6:30 p.m. show would not be broadcast and that the 9:00 p.m. broadcast of the Don Roberts Show would probably also not be broadcast. Roberts said he received a number of phone calls from viewers, some of whom alleged that the City did not want the show broadcast on its cable TV system.
Coincidentally, the 3:30 p.m. live broadcast of the Don Roberts Show on Comcast Cable TV Channel 28 was also not broadcast. However, the tape replay of that show was broadcast by Comcast at its regular time of 6:30 p.m.
For more information:
http://www.alamedadailynews.com
Alameda Councilmember Tony Daysog Asks for a Full Investigation of P&T's Failure to Air Don Roberts TV Shows
Tony Daysog:
"I will ask for a full investigation into this matter. My hope is that, indeed, there was a technical difficulty that, unfortunately, you and your audience got caught in. But we need to understand what that difficulty was, and if it ever happened before. We also need to know if it affected shows before your program and after.
Above all, we need to make sure that our cable service delivery system did not willfully and purposefully attempt to and succeed at squelching your freedom of speech, as well as the freedoms enjoyed by your viewing audience. Even if the issue that your July 20th program discussed yesterday was not a controversial issue, we still need to get to the bottom of the matter.
I am hoping that, indeed, it was simply a technical difficulty. But we need to get to the bottom of the issue.
I am asking for a full accounting of the situation within the context of my authority under Council Charter, particularly with regard to examining witnesses under sworn testimony. Thus, I am compelling the City Manager and the City Attorney to obtain from appropriate staff to obtain sworn and truthful testimony as to what happened.
...
Basic straightforward question:
Did a staffmember willfully and purposefully seek to preempt the Don Roberts TV Show on July 20, 2005?
Other questions to come."
Tony Daysog:
"I will ask for a full investigation into this matter. My hope is that, indeed, there was a technical difficulty that, unfortunately, you and your audience got caught in. But we need to understand what that difficulty was, and if it ever happened before. We also need to know if it affected shows before your program and after.
Above all, we need to make sure that our cable service delivery system did not willfully and purposefully attempt to and succeed at squelching your freedom of speech, as well as the freedoms enjoyed by your viewing audience. Even if the issue that your July 20th program discussed yesterday was not a controversial issue, we still need to get to the bottom of the matter.
I am hoping that, indeed, it was simply a technical difficulty. But we need to get to the bottom of the issue.
I am asking for a full accounting of the situation within the context of my authority under Council Charter, particularly with regard to examining witnesses under sworn testimony. Thus, I am compelling the City Manager and the City Attorney to obtain from appropriate staff to obtain sworn and truthful testimony as to what happened.
...
Basic straightforward question:
Did a staffmember willfully and purposefully seek to preempt the Don Roberts TV Show on July 20, 2005?
Other questions to come."
Are you people crazy (or, as I suspect, just the same old anti-business NIMBYs)? The old theater has sat there empty for 20 years. If something economically viable could have been done with it, it would have already happened.
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