The Dome Entertainment Center is a regional destination serving the millions of residents that previously were traveling far outside their neighborhoods to enjoy a movie and entertainment. The heart of the project is the 40-year-old Cinerama Dome that has been renovated and upgraded as part of this signature venue.

Robertson Properties' multilevel development also includes a 27,000-sf club/restaurant on the ground floor and a 50,000-sf 24-Hour Fitness health club on the upper two floors.

A Dallas-based entertainment company will unveil an original club concept at The Dome Entertainment Center. The 27,000-sf complex will feature six different venues including an upscale Asian-theme restaurant, a dueling pianos room, a retro dance club, a top-40 dance club, a sports bar, and a karaoke show bar.

24-Hour Fitness will open an expansive facility at the center this summer with a 25-meter lap pool, basketball court, kid's club and children's activities, a sauna, steam room and jacuzzi as just a few of its special features.

The Dome Entertainment Center includes a seven-level, 1,700-space public parking structure that serves not only the center but the surrounding neighborhood, providing much needed additional safe and secure parking. The project is a partnership with the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency which issued tax exempt bonds to finance construction of the parking structure that it will own and operate.

Robertson Properties and its general contractor OCAmerica began construction in the fall of 2000. Designed by Gensler, the Dome Center is bounded by Sunset Boulevard, Vine Street, Ivar and De Longpre Avenues.

The original Cinerama Dome, opened in November 1963, is the only geodesic dome built entirely of concrete. Rising more than 70 feet at the center, the dome is specially designed with hexagonal and pentagonal shapes that fit perfectly together like a jigsaw puzzle. The entire structure weighs 700 tons and is supported by a 16-foot-high circular base that is almost a foot thick. Cinerama Dome pioneered stadium seating, which has become the preferred style of movie seating three decades later.

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