Is there still hope for the Cinerama Dome? New permit request filed with city of L.A.

Will Cinerama Dome ever reopen? Maybe.

Dome Center LLC, the institution that owns the spot on Sunset Boulevard upon which the iconic movie venue stands, filed an exertion for a conditional-use licence to merchantability intoxicant for on-site depletion astatine the Cinerama Dome Theater and adjoined multiplex Tuesday.

According to the exertion filed by the company’s representative, Elizabeth Peterson-Gower of Place Weavers Inc., Dome Center is seeking a caller licence that would “allow for the continued merchantability and dispensing of a afloat enactment of alcoholic beverages for on-site depletion successful conjunction with the existing Cinerama Dome Theater, 14 auditoriums wrong the Arclight Cinemas Theater Complex, and restaurant/cafe with 2 outdoor eating terraces from 7:00 americium - 4:00 am, daily.” This would beryllium a renewal of the existent 10-year permit, which expires Nov. 5.

The findings papers filed with the City Planning Department besides mentions that “when the theatre reopens, it volition bring further jobs to Hollywood and reactivate the adjacent streets, expanding information and erstwhile again bringing vibrancy to the surrounding area.” No timetable for this reopening was indicated.

A typical for Dome Center LLC did not respond instantly Friday to a petition for comment.

The Cinerama Dome, which archetypal opened successful 1963, has been closed since it was unopen down astatine the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic successful 2020. After it was announced successful April 2021 that the beloved theatre would remained closed adjacent aft the pandemic, it was revealed successful December of that twelvemonth that determination were plans for the Cinerama Dome and the attached theatre analyzable to yet reopen.

In 2022, quality that the spot owners obtained a liquor licence for the renamed “Cinerama Hollywood” fueled the L.A. film-loving community’s anticipation that the venue was inactive connected way to return. But the Cinerama Dome’s doors person remained closed.

At a nationalist proceeding regarding the adjacent Blue Note Jazz Club successful June, Peterson reportedly indicated that portion determination were not yet immoderate definitive plans, the spot owners had reached retired to her to sermon the Cinerama Dome next. Perhaps this caller licence exertion is simply a motion plans are yet coming together.