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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The City of Reedley has received a important grant, which they program to usage to revitalize their historical opera house.
"Within the adjacent mates of years, we would person had to determine whether oregon not to unopen down this opera house," said Reedley's City Manager Nicole Zieba.
Thanks to T-Mobile's Hometown Grant Program, the opera location volition person a caller lease connected life. Reedley and 24 different towns person each been granted $50,000.
Reedley's historical opera house, astir 120 years old, is simply a gem successful the tiny city. But if you instrumentality a look inside, metropolis leaders accidental the signifier is outdated and becoming unsafe for production.
"The instauration wasn't done up to existent standards, and truthful the supports are farther isolated than they should be. It's precise rickety. It virtually is falling apart, and the railing is falling apart," Zieba shared.
The caller signifier volition beryllium ADA accessible. A task similar this would outgo the metropolis $100,000, funds Zieba says, the metropolis can't afford. So erstwhile they recovered retired they had a accidental of being picked for a $50,000 grant, they were each in. "To beryllium noticed amongst thousands is truly a neat constituent for the City of Reedley," she explained.
While the T-Mobile assistance volition not screen the full outgo of the stage, a section contractor volition instrumentality connected the remaining expenses, revitalizing the opera location and ensuring much performances by the River City Theater Company.
"That's Copeland Construction. We're conscionable ace excited astir it," Zieba said."You get a world-class production, dinner, connected the weekends they bash brunch. We person a barroom operating sometimes. And truthful you truly get the afloat theatre acquisition erstwhile you travel to the Reedley Opera House."
The metropolis wants to accommodate the River City Theater Company and their scheduled productions, but they anticipation to commencement this task by fall.
