A nonprofit group leading the effort to build an arts complex in the Willoughby District has received a $51,000 grant from the Juneau Community Foundation for a feasibility study and business plan.
The pARTnership is a joint project of Perseverance Theatre and the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council. Both organizations would share space in the proposed Willoughby Arts Complex, which would add on to the existing JACC building.
The McDowell Group has been selected to write the feasibility study and business plan. The group hopes it will provide direction on the scope of the facility, management and how to generate revenue.
A release from the pARTnership says the next phase of the project will include facility design and fundraising.
In 2012, city voters approved $1 million from sales tax revenue to support the project.
Editor’s note: A land use planning illustration of the Willoughby District that included an out of date rendering of the Willoughby Performing Arts Complex has been removed from this story.
