{"id":288819,"date":"2026-04-27T23:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/288819\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:25:08","slug":"swingers-resort-owner-buys-historic-berkeley-theater-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/288819\/","title":{"rendered":"Swingers Resort Owner Buys Historic Berkeley Theater: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKELEY, CA \u2014 The owner of a &#8220;clothing optional&#8221; swingers hotel in Southern California recently bought a historic Berkeley theater for $5 million, according to a report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/entertainment\/movies-tv\/article\/berkeley-california-theatre-sale-22224428.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Tien Lung Chen, who is part of an ownership group that owns Exotic Dreams Resort in Palm Springs, leads another group that recently bought the Landmark&#8217;s California Theatre in Berkeley, according to the report. It&#8217;s unclear what plans Chen and the ownership group have for the building. <\/p>\n<p>The theater first opened in 1914. It closed during the COVID-19 pandemic and never reopened. <\/p>\n<p>There were plans to potentially turn the building into a multi-story housing complex, but they never came to fruition, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p>Read more from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/entertainment\/movies-tv\/article\/berkeley-california-theatre-sale-22224428.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKELEY, CA \u2014 The owner of a &#8220;clothing optional&#8221; swingers hotel in Southern California recently bought a historic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-288819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}