Announced this month.
Symphony Outlines Plans for $275 Million Concert Hall
The Columbus Symphony Orchestra today unveiled more details about its plan to build a new $275 million performing arts venue on the Scioto Peninsula.
CSO Executive Director Denise Rehg spoke to Columbus Underground about the project, providing a broad outline of where the proposal currently stands. She also shared plenty of other details, including her perspective on the design (and the importance of utilizing local talent), how other partners are being brought in early in the process (including Columbus City Schools), and why it’s important that the facility be busy and occupied every day, not just on nights the symphony is playing.
Here are the main elements of the proposal:
- The current design of the 205,000-square-foot building – which is still considered conceptual – calls for a 1,600-seat main orchestra hall that would occupy about half of the building.
- The other half of the building would hold a community theater, an event space, rehearsal halls, educational spaces, and a recording studio.
- The proposed building would occupy a triangle-shaped, city-owned parcel located at 181 Washington Blvd., just south of COSI.
- The Columbus Downtown Development Corporation (CDDC), which has led the way in developing the Scioto Peninsula, entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the symphony that lays out a series of stipulations and milestones for the project. If those conditions are met, the city agrees to lease the land to the symphony for one dollar a year for 99 years.
- The symphony has secured about $27 million in funding commitments so far – largely from private sources – and is in line to receive a $10 million state capital grant.
- The timeline in the MOU requires the symphony to have lined up all of the funding commitments needed to build the project by June of 2025. Construction would then need to start within three months and last no longer than three years total, putting a potential opening date for the facility in the summer or early fall of 2028.
More below:
https://columbusunderground.com/symp...cert-hall-bw1/
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