City Council Approves Performing Arts Center
After three years of proposals and plans, the City Council gave the go-ahead late Tuesday to a new performing arts center, voting to spend $1.2 million to convert part of the Media City Shopping Center into a 276-seat theater.
The council unanimously awarded the contract to States Link Construction of Huntington Beach. The renovations should begin before the end of the month and be completed by the end of the year, said Mary Alvord, the director of Burbank’s Parks and Recreation Department.
That was good news to the Colony Studio Theatre, the company that has been waiting three years to operate the venue, tentatively called the Burbank Performing Arts Center.
The 14,000-square-foot building is owned by the Media City Shopping Center. But under an arrangement with the city, the space is leased back to the city as a venue for social and cultural activities.
Colony will rent the completed theater, as well as provide the theater such needs as lighting and sound systems. In addition, the theater and other meeting spaces will be open to use by local groups such as the Burbank Civic Light Opera or the Burbank Chorale.
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