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This could be the coolest restaurant in North Park if it is done right.” The “industrial feel” building has a 20-foot
exposed ceiling, with about 3025 square feet of ground space and about 1200 square feet of mezzanine space. Asking price is $2.75 per square foot + NNN (which means “tri- ple net lease”; the lessee pays all operating expenses). Tenant improvement allowance is “negotiable.” The structure, along with Discount Ciga-
rettes at 3018 University, was previously the Ramona Theater, a 500-plus-seat movie house with balcony built in 1926. In more recent years, it housed a discount clothing store. DAVID BATTERSON
OCEANSIDE Bye, squeaky seats
Theater giant buys small chain to add to its big one On January 31, as I sat in the Oceanside Digi- plex Theater at the Mission Market Place, I couldn’t help but be bothered by the squeaky seat behind me; I also noticed a seat covered up in the row in front of me. Speaking to a theater employee after
the film, I learned that the chain had been purchased by AMC and they were going to soon be getting new seats. AMC announced its acquisition of the 271-theater chain on December 21, making AMC the largest the- ater chain in the world, with a reported 661 theaters in the U.S. alone, and hundreds more in Canada, Europe, and China. AMC is owned by the Dalian Wanda Group, a Chi- nese conglomerate. According to Digiplex parent company
Carmike, upgrades to most locations nation- wide will be taking place in February or March. A manager at the Oceanside location said they are already operating as an AMC theater, but there was no signage indicating the location was now an AMC. “Everything will stay the same — the Carmike loyalty card and the prices like five-dollar Tuesdays,” said the manager. The acquisition also includes the Digiplex
River Village in Bonsall, Digiplex Theater in Poway, and the Tower Cinemas in Temecula. What was once a large chain in San Diego,
AMC had reduced its holdings to only five theaters in the county during an industry- wide merger and acquisition downsizing in the late 1990s, closing all of its North County locations. In other North County movie-theater
news, it was ten years ago on January 28 that the AMC 8 theaters in Encinitas closed; it
was soon after demolished to make way for a Staples office-supplies store. Former employee Danny Baldwin, now a columnist for the web- site
criticspeak.com, recently detailed his expe- riences working at the theater, lamenting its loss and crediting it for turning him into a movie lover and cinema reporter.
KEN HARRISON
ENCINITAS Strawberry patch for sale “We don’t have the money to buy it.” A 33-acre Encinitas strawberry farm landed on mayor Catherine Blakespear’s wish list this week when the real estate agent repre- senting the family owners offered it to the City of Encinitas. “It’s just north of the San Elijo Conser-
vancy,” Blakespear said. “We don’t have the money to buy it but I’d like to be able to.” The land — easily seen from the north-
bound I-5 offramp at Manchester Avenue — is the second half of a property that was split into two parcels last year. Caltrans bought 20 acres of the western half for about $7.2 million, which included buying out several cell-service providers’ rights to place towers on the land. “The remaining 33 acres are for sale —
they’re zoned R-3, which is residential,” Blake- spear said. “It would make a great open space.”
It’s not that the city is broke, she hastened
to say. But cities usually need nonprofit part- ners and a blend of city money, grants, and nonprofit dollars to make a purchase like that palatable to taxpayers and to advance a plan to convert it to open space, she said. Blakespear praised Caltrans’ efforts on
the adjacent parcel, which includes a park- and-ride lot and a trailhead for the San Elijo Lagoon. Caltrans plans to keep part of the land agricultural. Caltrans project manager Arturo Jacobo
confirmed that the agency’s plans for the straw- berry patch include five acres of community gardens. The park-and-ride lot will hold about 150 vehicles and will have charging stations for electric cars. There will also be bike lock- ers, he said. The plan includes an eight-foot-wide tunnel
under the I-5 to reach the eastern edge of the San Elijo Conservancy and several new trails, including one that runs north, parallel to and just west of I-5. And the agency is working with the conservancy to design a staging area for hikers and educational signs for the trail. Both the community gardens and the 11
acres of open space will be turned over to the San Elijo Conservancy, Jacobo said. There are also plans for a native plant garden in the community garden space.
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