Save the neighborhood movie theater
Where they stand
Karen Bass
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Nithya Raman
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A tax credit or grant for small businesses that buy, renovate and reopen a theater in LA, as long as it keeps screening films.
What’s the problem?
Neighborhood screens keep closing, and with them go some of LA’s best third spaces.
The fix
Help small businesses buy, fix up and reopen theaters, like the Highland Park Theatre and Vidiots, on the condition they keep showing films.
How would it affect me?
If you love movies
A real theater in your neighborhood again.
If you own a small business
Support to take on a historic building.
If you live here
A third space that brings the block together.
In plain English
Adopting this means
- Tax credits or grants for theater reopenings
- A requirement to keep screening films
It doesn’t mean
- Subsidies for big theater chains
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