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Opera House Sets $20M Goal

DETROIT-The final, "Crowning Achievement" is in the works for the Detroit Opera House with a $20-million renovation campaign.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on January 28, 2004

DETROIT-A $20-million fundraising initiative, dubbed “The Crowning Achievement,” will ensure the completion of the Detroit Opera House, which has been used as a “work in progress” since it re-opened Downtown to much fanfare. The capital campaign was announced this past week by David DiChiera, general director of the Michigan Opera Theater.

The funds will be used to renovate the sixth floor of the opera house to create the Ford Center for Arts and Learning, to provide a down payment for a new parking structure, to complete decorative painting in the opera house and to retire existing debt. Ford Motor Co. has already contributed $3 million to the effort and the Kresge Foundation has issued a $3-million challenge grant toward the program.

The 2,700-seat Detroit Opera House started life as the Grand Circus Theater over 75 years ago as a movie and vaudeville house. After it was closed for more than a decade, the Michigan Opera Theater launched a $24-million campaign to re-open it in 1996. A second effort, begun in 1999, raised $18 million to pay down debt and pay for other improvements.

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