By Cy Musiker, KQED News Fix
The American Conservatory Theater plans to break ground Oct. 2 on the restoration of San Francisco’s Strand Theatre.
The $30 million project will be a dramatic moment for arts companies that have been trying to remake mid-Market – one of the city’s funkiest neighborhoods – into a theater and arts district.
Market Street at night was once ablaze with the well-lit marquees of vaudeville houses, movie theaters and dance halls like the Gaiety, the Hub, the Odeon and the Paris.
“This street used to be like the Great White Way in the ’50s, lit up with theaters up and down Market Street,” says Carey Perloff, artistic director of American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
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