Jerry Kohl has called the Hollywood Bowl “a place of legends, a place that stays in people’s hearts for a lifetime.” Now his name, along with his wife Terri’s, will be permanently fixed to one of the Bowl’s newest structures.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to designate the venue’s new building the Terri and Jerry Kohl Artists Pavilion, formalizing a naming honor for the Pasadena couple whose $15 million gift is funding the majority of the $25 million project.
Introduced by Fifth District Supervisor Kathryn Barger, the vote also marked the first public disclosure of the gift’s size — a figure that had gone unreported since the pavilion’s groundbreaking last October…