[11] Downtown is home to three performing arts venues and a movie theater, the most for any central business district in the Inland Empire.

[13] Maya Cinemas was expected to open at the old site of the CinemaStar on February 27, 2009, however it failed to do so, and plans for a downtown San Bernardino theater were scratched.

[14] As of January 2011, Regal Entertainment Group was in negotiations with the city of San Bernardino to open a theater in the former Cinema Star site.

Architects Gregory Villanueva and Oscar Arnoni designed the 64,000-square-foot (5,900 m2) $6 million facility, which was named in honor of the late Rabbi Norman F.

[18] Partnering with the San Bernardino City Unified School District, the library supports a community Reading Festival for third-graders and their families.

[22] San Bernardino's current City Hall, its fourth iteration, is a six-story building designed in 1963 by César Pelli to reflect the urban environment around it.

[23] Completed in 1972, the City Hall is modernist in style,[24] has curtain walls, and is clad entirely in glass, with slim aluminum mullions.

It serves as a transfer point for bus routes the county, with connections to the sbX Bus Rapid Transit system, which connects Verdemont/California State University, San Bernardino to the Veterans Hospital in Loma Linda and the Downtown San Bernardino Passenger Rail System; which is a one-mile Metrolink extension from the Santa Fe Depot, and the Arrow commuter rail service with stops en route to the University of Redlands.