COSTA MESA : New Hall, Theater May Be Done Sooner
A proposed symphony concert hall for the Orange County Performing Arts Center could tentatively be ready for use sometime between 1994 and 1997, and a smaller multipurpose theater could be opened between 1995 and 1998, Center officials said Thursday.
Previously, the Center said it hoped to complete the two planned facilities by 2000.
Center Chairman Henry T. Segerstrom said Center officials shaved a couple of years off the time line because Orange County demonstrated strong financial support for the arts during the 1980s.
The concert hall and theater would complement the Center’s 3,000-seat Segerstrom Hall. The new concert hall is intended primarily as a home for the Santa Ana-based Pacific Symphony and the Orange County Philharmonic Society.
No sites for the proposed facilities have been determined.
Officials also announced Thursday that Security Pacific Corp. pledged $150,000 to the Center’s Endowment Fund. The money will be given in $30,000 increments over five years.
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