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Save the Berkeley Shattuck Cinemas

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Arthur Atlas
10 years ago

I'd like to volunteer to help this effort.

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Ruth Rosen
10 years ago

This is an idiotic development--too high

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Pamela Carleton
10 years ago

The Shattuck Theatre is a beautiful art deco gem which should be preserved. We drive out from Pleasanton to glimpse the beauty of this historic theatre which shows great films. This theatre is a real gem which cannot be replaced.

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robert moore
10 years ago

let 'em build it in Farralon Islands. great view

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Connie Holt
10 years ago

It's one of a kind, let it be. A true gem.

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Chris Gilbert
10 years ago

Let's have affordable housing or at least in-lieu of fees that can actually pay for it elsewhere. $20K per unit is way too low.

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Richard Miller
10 years ago

We must stop this project.

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Krista Brown
10 years ago

Berkeley has already lost two independent theaters in the last 10 years, I don't want to loose the Shattuck too!

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Bruce Haines
10 years ago

I despair of this manner of ongoing cultural loss in favor of short-sighted financial gain. Is nothing worth saving?

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Sheryl Birknet
10 years ago

I love this theater for its diversity of offerings and irreplaceable architecture. It is the only thing that brings me to this part of Berkeley.

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Marie Chelberg
10 years ago

Shattuck Cinemas shows movies that are difficult to find elsewhere, and it would be a shame to lose that.

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SD Ell
10 years ago

Pls save the Shattuck Theater!

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Nicholas Galloro
10 years ago

Greed trumps community!

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Jeffrey Gaddy
11 years ago

I don't live in Berkeley but part of the reason I come there a lot are things like The Shattuck. This is a treasure which should be preserved. The mayor and city council seem to want to make downtown into a little manhattan without any street level benefits. We have lost a lot of local businesses to corporate chains and megastorses. Has to stop!

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Arian sarris
11 years ago

Horrible idea. The shattuck is a jewel! And it serves a special kind of movie

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Lia Olson
11 years ago

This is a terrible project, Berkeley is a cultural mecca and the beautiful Shattuck Theater, which offers multiple theaters for documentary and Independent films, is central to it's very identity. Not only is it architecturally appealing, but it shows quality films available nowhere else, and bring in Directors and Actors for post-showing discussions. People travel long distances in order to take advantage of these offerings and then spend their money in Berkeley dining establishments. The combination of historic buildings, coffee houses and restaurants in the immediate vicinity, and Independent film make this neighborhood a mecca that should be preserved. An 18 story building has no place and would only destroy the cultural appeal of our downtown. This sort of development belongs in a metropolis, not the college town that we residents have chosen live in. Outsiders should not be allowed to destroy the charm of our community and bring in a population bigger than our already crowded streets can handle. I keep asking, why would ANYONE want to promote such destruction of our town.

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cecily hunter
11 years ago

I grew up in Berkeley, and have raised my kids to adulthood here. An 18 story building would be a blight on the downtown!

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William Scott
11 years ago

I come in from Merced and stay overnight! I visit regularly for the Berkeley experience, and the Shattuck Theatre is the main attraction... Most definitely NO on the demolition, YES on saving our cinema!

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Kate Pollack
11 years ago

Art and culture make up a city, not luxury condos. Don't take this space for knowledge and art away from us.

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Anonymous
11 years ago

Please no on this project.We need this theater !