{"id":49868,"date":"2019-06-25T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/live-meeting-focuses-on-centennial-hall-and-new-jacc\/"},"modified":"2019-06-25T18:27:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T02:27:18","slug":"live-meeting-focuses-on-centennial-hall-and-new-jacc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/live-meeting-focuses-on-centennial-hall-and-new-jacc\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Meeting focuses on Centennial Hall and New JACC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary: <\/strong>Both the New JACC and Centennial Hall projects would come with multi-million dollar price tags. Fundraisers for the New JACC requested $7.5 million in support from the city and MRV Architects found Centennial Hall work would cost about $18 million.<\/p>\n

6:10 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Juneau Arts & Humanities Council manages both the JACC and Centennial Hall. In light of that, Hale asked if it might be possible to have only one set of administrative offices.<\/p>\n

“I think you could definitely consolidate that into a single space,” Voelckers said.<\/p>\n

6 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul Voelckers, president and architect for MRV Architects, is now stepping the committee through a recent Centennial Hall needs assessment that produced a revamped version of the events venue that would cost $12.8 for construction and just shy of $18 million total for furnishing, designs, contingency and more.<\/p>\n

He said renovating the existing hall makes more financial sense than razing and rebuilding.<\/p>\n

“There is significant retained value,” Voelckers said. “You’re spending 40 percent of what you would spend to get equivalent brand new space.”<\/p>\n

5:50 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public support for the project would help induce funding from private donors, Botelho said.<\/p>\n

He said so far the Partnership has raised about $5.5 million and hopes city support would take the project past its half-way goal of $26.4 million.<\/p>\n

“No funder is going to go forward with this project if they don’t think it’s going to happen,” Botelho said.<\/p>\n

Assembly member Rob Edwardson said $7.5 million seems like a fair investment given the income that the city derives from events held at the JACC, but he was curious about how long the building would last.<\/p>\n

5:40 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bruce Botelho, chair for the Partnership, is leading off the meeting by presenting a request from the city.<\/p>\n

“We request that the Public Works & Facilities Committee recommend to the Assembly- through the Committee of the Whole- the adoption of an ordinance appropriating $7.5 million toward the construction of the arts and culture center,” Botelho wrote in a letter to committee chair Michelle Bonnet Hale.<\/p>\n

He said that’s less than what has previously been requested, but is still about one-third of the planned project’s $26.4 million price tag.<\/p>\n

Hale said near the meeting’s start that no action will be taken at tonight’s special meeting, but action may be taken at a July 1 meeting.<\/p>\n

5:35 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The proposed New Juneau Arts & Culture Center and a Centennial Hall needs assessment are the focus of a special meeting tonight.<\/p>\n

The City and Borough of Juneau Assembly Public Works and Facilities Committee will hear a request from the nonprofit the Partnership, which exists to fundraise for the New JACC. Additionally, findings from a Centennial Hall needs assessment will be presented.<\/p>\n

[Read more about both projects here<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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