Judith Prieve is a reporter and editor for the Bay Area News Group who covers eastern Contra Costa County for the East Bay Times and The Mercury News. She has worked as a reporter, features editor and assistant metro editor at newspapers in Wisconsin and Northern California and has been at what is now the Bay Area News Group since 1990.
Delta Theater owners Sean McCauley, left, and Ron Harrison, right, stand outside the two screen theater they are renovating on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Brentwood, Calif. BRENTWOOD – Doreen Pierce Forlow remembers the distinct smell of the movies from years gone by – the freshly popped popcorn oozing with real butter, the chocolate candies and even the slightly chemical smell of the big film reels.
“We didn’t really want to buy it, but the former owners weren’t going to put a lot of money into that particular building,” McCauley said of his 2019 purchase. “We knew it was the anchor of downtown Brentwood, and that’s the only building that brings 1,000 people a day, on a weekend, to downtown.” McCauley, though, acknowledged the timing turned out to be tough as the COVID-19 pandemic hit shortly after he bought the theater, then-called Cinelux Delta Cinema, which was forced to close in 2020.
McCauley, though, is optimistic that things will be different in Brentwood because of all the support he’s received so far from residents. “We did a lot of research on what it was like, but then we put the really cool amenities that we have in theaters today,” McCauley said of the now 200-seat venue. “If we had kept it the other way , I would have had more lobby space; I could have generated more dollars per square foot,” Caudle said, noting McCauley was more interested in authentic restoration. “I love that that was the first thing that he prioritized.”
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