BERKELEY — A historic Berkeley movie house that has been closed for years has been bought by a Los Angeles-area executive who wields an array of business interests in Southern California.
An affiliate headed up by Tien Lung Chen, a resident of the famed enclave of Beverly Hills, paid $5 million to buy the shuttered California Theatre in Berkeley, documents filed on April 20 with the Alameda County Recorder’s Office show.
The Chen-led group bought the old movie theater at 2115 Kittredge St. in Berkeley through an all-cash deal, according to the county real estate files.
The California Theatre closed its doors in 2021, one of the multitude of economic casualties doomed by the coronavirus in the Bay Area and worldwide…