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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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