Save the Civic
Contacts
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Share your concerns:
Santa Monica Mayor Phil Brock: phil.brock@santamonica.gov
Santa Monica Mayor Pro Tem Lana Negrete: lana.negrete@santamonica.gov
Council Member Gleam Davis: gleam.davis@santamonica.gov
Council Member Christine Parra: Christine.parra@santamonica.gov
Council Member Jesse Zwick: Jesse.Zwick@santamonica.gov
Council Member Caroline Torosis: Caroline.Torosis@santamonica.gov
Council Member Oscar de la Torre: Oscar.delatorre@santamonica.gov​
Santa Monica City Council Members: council@santamonica.gov
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Here are some ideas to help get you started. You needn’t use all these points (or any of them!) You may also prefer to write about a personal experience you’ve had at the Civic.
What We Want
Ownership
Revenue For the City
A restored, vibrant, PUBLIC Civic Auditorium serving as a venue for the performing, musical and visual arts. Such a Civic would make our City a cultural and arts destination for Santa Monicans, Southern Californians and beyond; a source of pride (and tax revenue!) for the people of our great City.
A Civic Auditorium is owned by the residents of Santa Monica. Keeping public spaces public is vital to to residents’ sense of being a community.
A revitalized world-class concert and performing arts center would provide the City with a revenue stream for decades, as opposed to a one-time sale. And the economic ripple effect for Santa Monica would be huge as a restored concert and performing arts venue in the heart of our city would attract people from all over the region and beyond, generating economic activity (and tax dollars!) for hotels, restaurants, etc., enhancing our City’s destination status.
We Can Do It!
City Council now has Letters of Interest from those who want to restore and operate the Civic under a long-term lease agreement. We urge the City to vet their proposals and make recommendations without delay so that City Council can begin negotiating with a credible investment group with experience in concert promotion who can restore and run the Civic as a world-class performing arts and cultural venue.