Bay Theatre News
HGTV – House Hunters Renovation
This Reno is History
November 10th, 2018
HGTV and their show “House Hunter’s Renovation” shoot an episode titled “This Reno iIs History. A real estate developer and his fiancee think outside the box” about the renovation of the Seal Beach Bay Theatre.
The Grunion
Vivid Marquee Lights The Way For Iconic Bay Theatre’s Return To Mid-Century Splendor
January 9th, 2019
SEAL BEACH A Fullerton real estate developer’s dream of reopening Seal Beach’s landmark Bay Theatre as an art movie and live entertainment venue is coming into focus.
Over the past two years, Paul Dunlap has become intimately familiar with the Bay Theatre – investigating its every sconce, flower-etched window pane and vintage exit sign. Should it stay or should it go? Has it resided here since World War II or is it an expendable latecomer?
Like a detective hot on the trail, Dunlap, 64, talks about forensics – as in: “I did the forensics on the original colors of the neon lights because I want to keep everything authentic.”
Yet even still, each visit to his precious treasure brings a new wave of wonderment.
The Orange County Register
Seal Beach’s Bay Theatre gets new owner with focus on art films and live entertainment
January 12th, 2017
SEAL BEACH A Fullerton real estate developer’s dream of reopening Seal Beach’s landmark Bay Theatre as an art movie and live entertainment venue is coming into focus.
More than six months after going into escrow, Paul Dunlap, president of Dunlap Property Group, confirmed he has completed the $2.1 million purchase of the building. He also has filed an application with the city’s Planning Commission for a conditional use permit, required to start working on the building and beginning operations, he said.
Los Angeles Times -Daily Pilot
Is Seal Beach’s historic Bay Theatre getting a new lease on life?
September 13, 2016
The iconic Bay Theatre in Seal Beach has sat dark for the past four years, but a Fullerton-based developer with a penchant for historic buildings has recently made it his mission to purchase the venue and rehabilitate it for films, music and the arts.
The OCR
Seal Beach’s Bay Theatre has a buyer with a vision
May 7, 2016
SEAL BEACH – As a younger man, Paul Dunlap dreamed of being another Bill Graham, the late rock promoter of such groups as the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.
On a weekday morning standing in front of the long-closed Bay Theatre in Seal Beach, Dunlap can almost see that vision coming true. The iconic building on Main Street could be his latter-day Fillmore. Albeit a much tamer version of the famous San Francisco concert hall.
