SAN JOSE — Several hundred homes might sprout at two San Jose sites where domed movie theaters once operated and showed blockbuster films, public documents show.
San Rafel for decades owned and operated domed theaters at numerous Bay Area locations, including a once-prominent cluster of cinemas in San Jose with their distinctive space-age rooflines.Most of these theaters that Syufy operated were located primarily on Winchester Boulevard in San Jose near the sites of the current Westfield Valley Fair and Santana Row mega malls. The great majority have been bulldozed.
252 units at 5655 Gallup Drive, a three-acre site where the Century 5 Almaden Theaters operated. Syufy now leases the domed building to Menlo Church.
That’s going to be a mess.
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