![]() It owns the Vogue Theater on Sacramento Street and leases the Balboa Theater in the Richmond District. Opera Plaza Cinema is the third theater the foundation has taken over. The foundation will invest $1.2 million into updating the space, according to board members Jack Bair and Alfonso Felder, San Francisco Giants executives who co-founded the foundation in 2002. The San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation is taking over the four-screen cinema, which has long specialized in independent movies rarely shown shown at San Francisco megaplexes. Opera Plaza Cinema, the struggling Civic Center movie house that had been scheduled to shut down, has a new nonprofit owner and a fresh long-term lease. Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle Show More Show Less Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 8 of8 Alfonso Felder volunteer of the San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation takes a call in the projection room of the Opera Plaza movie theater on Tuesday, Feb. Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 7 of8 One of the projection rooms seen at the Opera Plaza movie theater on Tuesday, Feb. The San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation is now taking over Opera Plaza movie theater. Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 6 of8 Jack Bair (left), (middle), Katherine Petrin (middle) and Alfonso Felder (right), volunteers from the San Francisco Neighborhood theater foundation seated in the Opera Plaza movie theater seen on Tuesday, Feb. Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 5 of8 View of the lobby at the Opera Plaza movie theater seen on Tuesday, Feb. Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 4 of8 View of the concession stand seen at the Opera Plaza movie theater on Tuesday, Feb. ![]() Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of8 Maintenance supervisor Carlos Quezada walks in the lobby of the Opera Plaza movie theater on Tuesday, Feb. Photos by Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of8 Open door of one of the projection rooms seen at the Opera Plaza movie theater on Tuesday, Feb. 1 of8 View of the concession stand seen at the Opera Plaza movie theater on Tuesday, Feb.
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