Public Comment

The community and the city should mandate a firm, legally enforceable, long-term commitment to very specific lease terms and theater reconstruction terms for the Shattuck Cinemas before signing off on permits for the Harold Way attroc... I mean the Harold Way Project.

Who can forget that the Fine Arts Theater was assured that it could return to its location at Haste and Shattuck if the developer got his permits, but with no hard numbers, only to discover after the new building went up that the theater, a unique cultural asset to the East Bay, could never survive on the new market rental rates demanded. The end result being that while the name was purloined for the Fine Arts building (as a perpetual flipping of the bird to the public), the theater and its repertory are long gone.

Fool me once....