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Joffrey Ballet to Get New Home

CHICAGO- The renowned ballet troupe is planning to build a $24 million downtown headquarters in one of the largest dance development projects in the nation. Commonwealth Edison is donating the $4.5 million building near Lake and State Streets and the city will pitch in another $4 million, with the rest to be raised in a fund raising drive.

By Ted Jackson | Updated on October 29, 2000

CHICAGO-Five years after moving to Chicago from New York, the world renowned Joffrey Ballet is putting down roots with plans to build a $24 million headquarters in the heart of the Downtown theatre district. Joffrey officials say the project will be one of the largest dance developments ever undertaken in the U.S.

“Over the past five years dance has started to build infrastructure on an large scale,” says Jack Lemmon, executive director at the Joffrey. “Ours will be one of the biggest.” Over the past three years, Lemmon says big dance facilities have been constructed for the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, the Boston Ballet and the Miami City Ballet.

While city officials are kicking in $4 million as part of Mayor Daley’s rejuvenation plan for the Downtown theatre district, the new Joffrey project will not be a performance facility. “This will be our new headquarters,” says Lemmon. The planned headquarters building is sorely needed as dancers are currently practicing is facilities that are unsuitable. “Some of studios have pillars in them, which you can imagine isn’t very practical,” says Lemmon.

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