Renovation and Expansion of Heritage Center
The Heritage Center is building a $14 million 19,000-square-foot (1,800 m2) performance and educational program space at the Weeksville site. Its new performance and programming space, which will also include a café and library and is being financed almost entirely by city money, will extend Weeksville’s offering to a broader spectrum of the community. The Heritage Center plans to increase the number of visitors from the roughly 7,500 who visit annually to about 50,000.
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