{"id":309421,"date":"2026-05-10T21:18:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/309421\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T21:18:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:18:52","slug":"bakersfield-planning-commission-approves-alcohol-sale-for-regal-edwards-at-the-marketplace-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/309421\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield Planning Commission approves alcohol sale for Regal Edwards at The Marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:KGET Bakersfield;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"KGET Bakersfield\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Fri, May 8, 2026 at 6:08 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_kget_bakersfield_articles_632\/da859176954dca9d93cb4a7d25f9c7bc.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield Planning Commission approves alcohol sale for Regal Edwards at The Marketplace<\/p>\n<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Edwards movie theater in The Marketplace on Ming Avenue got the city\u2019s approval Thursday to start selling alcohol to moviegoers.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Planning Commission unanimously approved the conditional use permit during its regular meeting May 7, with two of the seven commissioners absent.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Regal Edwards at The Marketplace looks to start selling alcohol;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/regal-edwards-marketplace-looks-start-210245693.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Regal Edwards at The Marketplace looks to start selling alcohol\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some commissioners expressed concern about the area reportedly having the highest reports of loitering and incidents involving minors in the city, as well as losing family-friendly locations that don\u2019t allow alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>However, the commissioners said there aren\u2019t any reasons to reject the permit.<\/p>\n<p>Regal Edwards Cinemas is a 1,321-capacity theater at 9000-G Ming Ave.<\/p>\n<p>The permit lets the theater apply for a license that would allow for the sale of beer and wine in partnership with a restaurant. Distilled spirits would not be allowed except specific liqueurs used for cooking.<\/p>\n<p>If no one files an appeal against the permit to the Bakersfield City Council in 10 days, the permit will go into effect.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, May 8, 2026 at 6:08 PM UTC Bakersfield Planning Commission approves alcohol sale for Regal Edwards at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,17820,23487],"class_list":["post-309421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-commissioners","tag-conditional-use-permit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309421","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=309421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}