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WASHINGTON, DC-Having relied on the temporary use of various performance spaces here and there over its nearly three-decade history, the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co. has finally gotten its own home. The 30,000-sf theater recently opened within the mixed-use condominium and retail building Jefferson at Penn Quarter at 7th and D streets in the budding Penn Quarter area.

JPI development, owner of the Jefferson, constructed the 265-seat theater, which cost $8.5 million to complete. The city's Office of Planning and Economic Development and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities pitched in $2 million for the project.

"This theater will join the Shakespeare Theatre, the MCI Center, the International Spy Museum, shops, restaurants and other sites as an integral part of an exciting and re-energized neighborhood," District Mayor Anthony A. Williams says in a statement. Spanning three levels, Woolly Mammoth also features a rehearsal hall, classroom, dressing rooms, shop space and an area for administrative offices and operations.