EPIC fails but FAGR keeps trying to create a performance arts center

Story by Barb Boyer Buck

The construction of a performing arts center that supporters would like to build at Stanley Park will cost an estimated $25 million. To proceed, 70%—or $17 million—needs to be raised.

The problem is that the area being considered for the facility is currently used for overflow parking for large events such as the Rooftop Rodeo and the Longs Peak Scottish-Irish Highland Festival.

Also, there is skepticism based on previous failed attempts to build a performing arts center in Estes Park.

Tim Phillips, president of the Fine Arts Guild of the Rockies board, says there is plenty of public support for a performing arts center in that location, according to public outreach conducted by Design Concepts, a consultant completing a new Stanley Park Master Plan.

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