ImaginAsian Center

ImaginAsian Sale Listing Seems an About-Face by Developer

By Eric Richardson — May 16, 2008 — 17 Comments

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Earlier this week Curbed noticed that the ImaginAsian Center was listed on Loopnet, a real estate sales site. The theatre, which opened in late 2007, is listed for $5.7 million.

Cinema Properties Group developed the site, bringing ImaginAsian in to operate. In statements to Curbed and later the Downtown News, broker Sandy Bleifer said that a turn-around sale was always the plan. That stands in contrast to a statement Cinema Properties Group made to the L.A. Business Journal in 2006. — Continued Inside...

Free Screening Tonight at ImaginAsian

By Eric Richardson — December 20, 2007

If you're planning on sitting around bored this evening, you might as well go sit in some comfy new theater seats instead. The ImaginAsian Center has a free screening of A Taste of Tea tonight at 9:30pm. Their site describes the film thusly: The Taste of Tea is a psychedelic version of Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander and a lysergic homage to Yasujiro...

ImaginAsian Center Makes Its Main Street Debut

By Ed Fuentes and Eric Richardson — December 02, 2007
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Last night brought the ImaginAsian Center's Main street debut as a nearly full house turned out for the venue's introduction and ribbon-cutting. Elected officials and their representatives congratulated ImaginAsian President J. Edward Lee and Cinema Properties' President Sue Ann Kirst on bringing a modern movie house to the heart of Downtown. In a very real...

ImaginAsian Center Gets Set for Its Big Day

By Eric Richardson — November 28, 2007
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Passing by the glass-clad exterior of the ImaginAsian Center today one could look in and see fire alarms flashing as construction crews worked with city inspectors to get the venue's occupancy permits in order. Saturday the theater premieres with a red carpet gala hosted by Carrie Ann Inaba and Michelle Krusiec before opening to the public on December 7th....

ImaginAsian Looking to Staff Up

By Eric Richardson — October 24, 2007

I have no intentions of creating a blogdowntown job board, but this seemed like one worth not passing up. ImaginAsian Entertainment, the company that'll soon be opening the ImaginAsian Center in the old Linda Lea theater on Main street, is looking for a House Manager and an Operations Manager. Full details are up on their website. If you're living Downtown...

ImaginAsian Center Will Add Modern Life to Main

By Eric Richardson — July 25, 2007
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Though I never set foot in the old Linda Lea theater on Main street, it was clear just from passing by that the building wasn't in the best of shape. When architecture firm Hodgetts+Fung got inside to plan work on the new ImaginAsian Center, there wasn't much that they could save. The building's rehab has been a rebuild, with only the exterior walls and a...

Life at the Linda Lea

By Eric Richardson — February 16, 2007
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One year ago today the _Times_ ran a piece [saying that the Linda Lea could be reopened by summer 2006](http://blogdowntown.com/blog/2142). That obviously didn't happen. A year later and renovations are finally underway. Signs of life first showed up two weeks ago, and if you pass by the site today you'll see a full-on construction scene. As you can see...