I'm pretty excited about the new Jazz Bakery that will be opening up in Culver City at 9814 Washington Blvd. The Jazz Bakery was a long time Culver City standard at the Helms Bakery complex. Unfortunately, the original closed its doors to make way for a furniture store before we moved to the area.
The new Jazz Bakery, set to open in late 2012, is going to have a 250 seat theater and a cafe. Frank Gehry is designing the facility, so I have to think it will be an architectural masterpiece. He was generous enough to design the building at no cost. Culver City is getting its own little Disney Concert hall of sorts!
The best part is that it is supposed to have a rooftop deck (hopefully, with a bar!). I was commenting to my wife that a wish Culver City had a place with a rooftop deck, and now we are getting one. With 250 performances per year, this should bring a lot of additonal business to the restaurants in the area, as well.
I pulled the attached architectural drawing from Culver City Times which, incidentally, is the best website for information about Culver City, in my opinion.
The only downer is that they are going to have to tear down the old home that currently sits there. Does anyone know the history of this place? I will have to do some research.
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