Is Vault 350 owner Rudy Medina downtown’s next patron saint?

PHOTO by JOHN GILHOOLEY
Rudy Medina sounds like the kind of guy who knows a good thing when he sees it, and at the moment that happens to be his own reflection, which he can barely see at all. Medina is checking himself out—or trying to—in the [...]

LBReport.com and LBPost.com report that the Vault 350 nightclub at 350 Pine Ave.–dark since the May 2008 death of owner Mitchell Stewart–has been “acquired by Medina Investments and Development (MID) and X1FM Network Radio.”
“In a release from Medina Investments forwarded by Long Beach’s Convention & Visitors Bureau, the new owners say they plan ‘a multi-million [...]

The Press-Telegram’s Tim Grobaty says yeah, sure sounds like it.
He sez the downtown Pine Avenue club–shuttered following the death in May of owner Mitchell Stewart–has found a new backer (big Hollywood producer), a new manager (Vince Jordan, lately of The Cellar), and could be switching on its soundboard as soon as Grand Prix weekend.
That would [...]

MITCHELL STEWART
1959-2008
Mitchell Stewart, of Calabasas & Malibu, California passed away from an
apparent heart attack on Sunday, April 27, 2008 at his home.  Stewart was a self-
made visionary entrepreneur, who along with his wife and business partner, Nurit
Petri, founded and operated a mortgage bank and local concert venues including
the Vault 350 in Long Beach and the [...]

Mitchell Stewart, who revitalized downtown Long Beach nightlife four years ago by converting an abandoned Pine Avenue bank into the state-of-the-art concert venue The Vault 350, died early Sunday morning of a heart attack, the District has learned. He was 49. No other details could be confirmed. 
“Mitchell Stewart has passed away,” said Andy Dubin, an associate of Stewart’s. “That’s all I [...]