OK Given for Corporation to Run Historic Theater
Despite objections by the mayor, the Glendale City Council has authorized formation of a nonprofit corporation to operate the historic Alex Theatre.
The council, acting jointly as the Redevelopment Agency, also appointed six members of a theater task force to be directors of the corporation to operate the Alex as a cultural and performing arts center. Three more members will be appointed later.
Mayor Ginger Bremberg called the action “presumptuous and quite arrogant” because Mann Theatres still owns the 66-year-old theater at 216 N. Brand Blvd. Redevelopment officials are negotiating to buy the theater from Mann, which closed the Alex on Sept. 26.
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