Bids on Broadway

First up, enjoy Sunday, folks. If you’re a rain-rain-go-away type, it’s going to be the last dry day ahead of a wet and cold week.

Second, let’s think about preservation. The word can take us in a couple of directions. Preservation of a favored old haunt, for instance, or of privacy. We have stories about one of each for you.

The old haunt is Spreckels Theatre in downtown San Diego. In the nomination form for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places, its building, on Broadway, was noted to lack “some of its former grandeur.” Still, it “could easily be brought back to its former glory,” supporters wrote in 1975.

The theater celebrated its centennial in 2012, but has been shuttered for nearly six years and is up for auction, so surely much more work is in order. The buyer with the highest bid will have a project on his or her hands. But a worthy one, as the theater neatly fits in with the current favored vision for downtown. Drew Sitton explains.

And finally, the second episode of the San Diego Politics Show, our new every-other-week YouTube show, is up right now for you to watch. Our Andrew Keatts interviewed San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce CEO Chris Cate about fights at City Hall he’s been involved in, and Sara Libby, the politics editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, joined the show for a panel discussion on the races for governor and the 48th Congressional District. Check it out.

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