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commercial district as well as the advent of large suburban
multiscreen theaters, it lost its audience. In June 1976, the
Redwood City Planning Department listed the Redwood City Fox as a
key building in the Historic Resources Inventory of Redwood City.
Despite its listing in the Historic Resources Inventory, the
Redwood City Fox stage was rarely used throughout much of the
1970's,7 though the retail/office spaces did have tenants.
After Jacobs' purchase and subsequent donation of the
property, the City Council of Redwood City designated the Redwood
City Fox an official historic landmark on July 27, 1987. In
1989, the City Center Action Committee of Redwood City was
formed, which focused on the Redwood City Fox as one element in a
plan for the revitalization of downtown Redwood City. In 1991,
the City of Redwood City also established the Fox Theater Task
Force (Task Force). The Task Force was organized to conduct
activities that would benefit Redwood City through the
preservation of the Redwood City Fox. The potential benefit of
these activities was described in a Task Force Report as "the
preservation of an historic building, assistance in the
revitalization of Downtown [Redwood City] by increasing activity
at the Fox and increasing the availability of cultural activities
in the City." One of the activities of the Task Force was the
7 Jacobs testified that prior to his purchase of the Redwood
City Fox in May 1981, the then-owners of the property were
"making almost no use of the theater" other than to show second-
run and old films.
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