Award of Merit, Cultural/Worship: Merced Theatre Renovation
Completed in January 2012 for $8.3 million, this project restored one of Merced's 1930s landmarks.
The Spanish Colonial Revival structure was a cultural and social hub for the city for 47 years and featured visual and sound equipment and air conditioning that were cutting-edge at the time. But in 1978, the theater was converted into a fourplex cinema.