Yesterday’s Times-Dispatch reported that the Virginia Performing Arts Center will forever now be refered to as Richmond CenterStage:
The planned arts center in downtown Richmond that once was touted as a statewide project now has a city-focused name.
The complex, which is being funded largely by city taxpayers, will be known as Richmond CenterStage.
It will include the Carpenter Center and several smaller venues, assuming that $9 million in private funds can be raised by the end of next month.
“Richmond is the center of the metropolitan area. This is for all of the metropolitan area, but it’s in the center city,” said Susan H. Fitz-Hugh, a member of the Virginia Performing Arts Foundation’s board of directors.
So take pride in this project and the tax dollars it’s going to suck out of your pocket, Richmonders. It’s got Richmond in the name!
Can I call my apartment Richmond StageLeft and ask for tax subsidies?
Don over at SaveRichmond continues what has been a great effort to take VPAF to task for this whole debacle, coming away from the article with a shopping list of questions and concerns.