New Berkeley Housing Project Would Replace Beloved Theater

CBS Bay Area

December 12, 2024

The housing crisis has spurred a lot of new state laws, many of them designed to force communities to build more homes. For decades, Berkeley stood in the way of building more housing and now they're paying a price for it.

With the law removing most local control, residents are just beginning to see what could be lost when they have no say in what's built or what's demolished.

In 1919, silent film stars Charlie Chaplain and Mary Pickford made history when they founded United Artists, a movie studio that set out across California to build its own theaters. The one on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley opened in September of 1932 at a cost of $300,000 and was considered the most luxurious venue in a city that had become an entertainment mecca in the Bay Area.

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