NEWPORT BEACH
The nonprofit foundation trying to resurrect the Balboa Theater has run into some unexpected costs that will drive the fund-raising goal up to $3.5 million.
“The biggest problem with this whole building scenario is the Americans [With] Disabilities Act requirements,” said Dayna Pettit, board president for the Balboa Performing Arts Theatre Foundation.
Foundation members remain optimistic.
“We have to raise another $2.5 [million],” Pettit said. “It’s not so much money.”
However, given that it took three years to raise the initial $1 million--$480,000 of which was Newport’s purchase of the Balboa Boulevard building--the unforeseen costs could push the theater’s timeline back.
The foundation had hoped to have the renovated theater open by the fall of 2000.
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