THE LONG-SUFFERING BUT HISTORIC Lorenzo Theater is on its way to a new life as a multi-purpose entertainment venue and community space thanks to a fresh influx of cash from Alameda County. 

The county Board of Supervisors in June approved $17.8 million for the second phase of a project to rehabilitate the building, which was built in 1947 as a 700-person theater and severely damaged by two fires in 2020.

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.