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Historic Preservation: New Mission Theater Rehab Inches Forward, With Suds

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Wednesday, February 15, 2012, by Philip Ferrato

As per the SF Business Times, there's a hearing this morning at the Historic Preservation Commission to look over Gus Murad's proposal to turn his landmark New Mission Theater into a 5-screen multiplex with Alamo Drafthouse as the operator. Like all things Murad, this one's not simple, since the also plan calls for a lot split, ceding an area in the back of the building (on Bartlett Street) to the Giant Value building, which is apparently in the design phase for new condominiums at the draft EIR stage. To recap, most of the New Mission building is on Bartlett Street, and the iconic Timothy Pflueger pylon on Mission Street tops the entrance to a long hall, which then leads to an immense lobby and the once-lovely triple-tiered auditorium.

The plan is to turn the lobby into a kitchen and bar (the projectionist's booth gets to be a private room) with the main auditorium trimmed down, three small theaters in the balcony, and one in the upper balcony. All of this with full-on seismic, AD and exits, plus restoration of the Beaux-Arts interiors by the Reid Brothers in 1916 and Pflueger's Art Deco renovations from 1932. So far, all Murad and his partners are looking for is a Certificate of Appropriateness, and with a few reservations, staff recommends approval, but except for mentioning the lot split, is silent on the 95-condo development planned for the Giant Value site.

Murad bought the site from City College in 2003 and always had plans to turn it into a food/film/event venue, and an alliance with Texas-based Alamo Drafthouse continues that. There's a timeline from preservation group Friends of 1800. Unused and empty for a few years and briefly a furniture store, a group broke into the theater in March 2006 and held a rave. Some 300 people were chased out by the police and there was substantial damage, including extensive graffiti. For better or worse, the party's been immortalized on Flickr.
· Five-screen movie theater coming to Mission District? [J.K. Dineen/SF Business Times]
· Gus Murad Coverage on Curbed SF [Curbed Sf Archives]
· New Mission Theater on Curbed SF [Curbed SF Archives]
· New Mission Theater Party [kate at yr own risk/Flickr]
· New Mission Theater [Friends of 1800]

2554 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA

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Demolition: Steve Jobs Can Finally Tear Down His Historic 1925 House

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Thursday, February 17, 2011, by Sarah Firshein

Does anyone remember the year 2001 as it pertains to the history of Apple? 'Twas most momentous—a little product known as the iPod first hit the market, and it was at the time billed as a "breakthrough MP3 product that packs up to 1,000 CD-quality songs into an ultra-portable, 6.5 ounce design that fits in your pocket." The other important thing that happened for the company in 2001 was that CEO Steve Jobs applied for a demolition permit for the house he had lived in since the '80s, the historic Jackling House in Woodside, Calif. Ten years later, the preservationists have relented, permits have been granted, and demolition begins on the 17,250-square-foot Spanish Colonial Revival house this week. Jobs has plans to build a more modern (and modest) 4,910-square-foot house in its place. That's no comfort to certain folks at the National Trust for Historic Preservation; one went on the record and said, "Jobs does demolition because brains, billions and some Buddhism don’t buy wisdom or even basic respect for others." Burn!

· Apple Presents iPod [Apple]
· Demolition Begins on Steve Jobs's Woodside Mansion [Mercury News via UnBeige]
· Where Genius Sleeps: Blueprints For Steve Jobs's New Manse [Curbed National]

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That's Rather Lovely: No-Fuss Modern Digs in Historic Building as Crisp as Owner

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Friday, January 7, 2011, by Sarah Photos: Jeffrey Hirsch/NYSD

This week's New York Social Dairy House column explores the airy, bright apartment of architectural designer Jennifer Post. "For all her white paint and expensive white Italian sofas, she says she could never live in a modern building," write the interviewers of the space in NYC's famed Apthorp building. The notoriously blunt Post, who counts Simon Cowell among her clients, offered a series of inspiringly quick-hitting thoughts such as "architecture has to be the hero." No prattling on for this one, thank the lord! Her home is likewise swift, spare, and elegant—do have a look above.
· Jennifer Post [NYSD House]

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