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Foundation Plans 70,000-SF Performing Arts Center

CHICAGO-ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Inc. will build a two-story cultural center on 3.9 acres at S. South Chicago Avenue and E. 76th Street with a 550-seat theater and 125-seat cabaret.

By Mark Ruda | Updated on July 01, 2005

CHICAGO-ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Inc. plans to build a two-story, 70,000-sf performing arts venue and cultural center on 3.9 acres at S. South Chicago Avenue and E. 76th Street. The center, which reportedly will cost $11.7 million, will include a 550-seat theater, a 125-seat cabaret as well as office space.

The 35-year-old not-for-profit company will have the South Shore site rezoned from M1-2 to C1-2 under a planned development endorsed recently by the plan commission. ETA has outgrown its current quarters across S. South Chicago Avenue, which it has occupied since 1979. The group, which provides training in the performing and cultural arts in the African-American community, drew 100,000 to its events last year, says co-founder, president and producer Abena Joan Brown.

The new building, a series of connected octagons with masonry, angled walls with African-themed chevron detailing, would be connected to the current 18,340-sf building by a pedestrian bridge spanning S. South Chicago Avenue. “This is a very, very unique project,” says 42 Ward Alderman Burton Natarus. “Just look at the architecture…This is an area that could use a lot of development.”

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