City of Winter Haven agrees to acquire struggling Historic hotelkeeper Theatre – Information Important Internet

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – The Historic hotelkeeper Theatre is today in the safekeeping of the City of Winter Haven.

The antiquity has been a alive fixture of downtown for nearly a century, but upkeep has been challenging.

It has been in individual safekeeping throughout the decades, most fresh the nonprofit, hotelkeeper Historic Theatre, Inc, but the outlay of maintaining the antiquity has embellish hard over the terminal some years.

“During and reaching and discover of COVID, this antiquity and some theaters in Central Florida — we didn’t hit UPPP money or bailouts or anything. The municipality has been serving us discover for individual eld now,” said saint Westberry, Board President of The hotelkeeper Historic Theatre, Inc.

The noncommercial went to the municipality primeval this assemblage with the intent of commerce the theater. On Monday, the municipality authorisation authorised the acquire for nearly half a meg dollars.

“One, It’s historic. Two, It’s a large social asset,” said T. archangel Stavres, the City Manager. “I’m reaching for a singable circumstance or endeavor or concert, some it haw be in the building. Maybe I’ll become primeval and hit party with the rest of the grouping I’m motion with, or I module meet after and savor the rest of the nightlife. It’s meet digit more think for grouping to become downtown and support alter the rest of the playing community.”

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The municipality is currently negotiating to hit an commendation with Theatre Winter Haven, a nonprofit, so they crapper verify over direction of planning and performances.

Westburry says they could’ve oversubscribed the antiquity for its clean mart continuance of around $2 million, but the content was to wager the antiquity meet in the safekeeping of the community.

“This is downtown’s initiate and it module move to be downtown’s stage,” said Westberry.

The municipality and the nonprofit’s lessen module be finalized in August.

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