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Case Statement
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Case Statement
The capital campaign to renovate and historically preserve the Winters Building will result in a significantly enhanced teaching and performing arts center which will have a long-term economic and cultural impact on our students and their families, the historic downtown redevelopment area of the city of Richmond and the larger communities of the county of Contra Costa and the Greater Bay Area.
The project initially was scaled as a retrofit, but after a thorough seismic and engineering analysis, we have determined that the entire structure needs to be rebuilt behind the historic façade.
Architectural work to entirely re-engineer the interior of the building will capture it’s lost scale of beauty, dignity and light and will assist in drawing new residents to the Center with the ultimate goal of building a greater sense of ownership and enhancing its impact as a community and cultural resource.
While the Center already serves a regional audience, this project will allow us to draw residents of other Bay Area communities to Richmond, thereby helping a greater audience understand our work within the context of our local community.
We anticipate that expansion of an audience and understanding will enhance donor cultivation and support economic revitalization of the area without compromising our existing community core population.
Upon completion of this campaign:
Our core student body will grow from the current 400 students/year to 600 students/year by year five.
Audience capacity will increase from the current 3,000 attendees to 9,000 attendees by year five.
Program/teaching/performance space will increase by 5,000 square feet (net).
New and expanded relationships with existing and new funders/donors will lead to a program with greater depth and diversity
Ownership of a renovated home/asset will strengthen the long-term fiscal viability of the organization
The restored facility will serve as leverage for the $200 million redevelopment project in neighborhood
The restored facility will serve as a new, exciting and safe destination point in historic downtown and will eventually include a new 750-seat outdoor stage for public/community events
The renovated facility will be the largest, best-equipped public convening space in the underserved Iron Triangle neighborhood of 15,000 + residents
The restored and redesigned facility will serve as beacon of organizational longevity and continuity and therefore showcase the East Bay Center as a national model for other inner-city, urban youth/arts cultural organizations
The restored facility will provide two new accessible state of the art venues for Bay Area artists (220 and 200 seats)
The renovated facility will provide greater capacity for professional development, after school services and local school field trips for an arts-starved 40,000 student school district (West Contra Costa Unified, WCCUSD).
For more information about the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts Capital Project, please call or write:
Charlene Smith
Special Projects Coordinator
charlene.smith@eastbaycenter.org
(510) 234-5624, (*8, 19)