The Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium, the largest indoor entertainment venue in Marin County, is scheduled to reopen in January 2027 following more than three years of closure for extensive renovations, county officials announced Thursday. 

The auditorium, which opened in 1971, closed in 2023 for planned seismic and code upgrades. During construction, crews uncovered deeper structural issues related to soil settlement, requiring additional foundational, drainage and sewer repairs. 

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.