HUNTINGTON BEACH : Local Leaders View Site of Art Center
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Representatives from the city government and local art organizations and business leaders met this week to survey the future site of the Huntington Beach Art Center.
The 11,000-square-foot building at 538 Main St. was bought by the city in 1988 for $750,000 from Southern California Edison Co., which had used it for business offices. The art center will be the inland anchor of the city’s Main-Pier area development center.
At an open house ceremony, Councilman Peter M. Green thanked the FHP medical group, which on Tuesday gave a $75,000 check to the Huntington Beach Art Center Foundation, the fund-raising arm of the center.
The center is scheduled to open in spring, 1991, and will include three galleries covering 4,000 square feet of exhibition space, a performance room, a studio and a bookstore. The renovation of the building is expected to cost about $750,000, bringing the total cost of setting up the center to about $1.5 million.
