The city is looking for someone to renovate and reopen the 3,600-seat outdoor amphitheater.
Plants spring up among the seats at the shuttered Starlight Bowl, an open-air amphitheater in San Diego's Balboa Park in this undated photo.The Ford Motor Company built the amphitheater in 1935 as a place to showcase cars during the California Pacific International Exposition. The San Diego Civic Light Opera then held musical performances there for decades. The venue saw its last performance in 2010.
In his State of Balboa Park address Thursday night, Mayor Todd Gloria said he’s ready to bring it back.“It is high time that this special corner of the Palisades be rehabilitated and put back into productive use for the benefit of the community, so that many more lifelong memories can finally be made here once again,” he said., the city said it’s looking for “innovative ideas” to better incorporate the theater into Balboa Park’s architectural design.
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