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The Bank Theatre and Meeting Place will begin Phase II of its “Raise the Roof” renovation project thanks to federal and municipal investment. The Bank Theatre Board members and volunteers welcomed Chatham-Kent Essex Member of Parliament Dave Van Kesteren and Leamington Mayor John Paterson on Thursday, February 21. The Municipality of Leamington applied for a Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund grant through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario). MP Van Kesteren was happy to be able to deliver the news in person that the project had been approved. The CIIF funding mandates that projects receive funding support from the originating project, in this case, The Bank Theatre, and have support at the municipal level in order to qualify for the federal funding. Phase II has a $180,000 price tag, which equates to approximately $60,000 for each partner. Phase II scheduled for later this summer and expected to be complete by 2014, will effectively transform the century-old bank building into The Bank Theatre and Meeting Place. The existing roof will be demolished, the bank vault and columns will be removed
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The Bank Theatre and Meeting Place board members welcomed MP Dave Van Kesteren (front, left) and Leamington Mayor John Paterson (front, right) to tour The Bank Theatre before they announced CIIF funding of approximately $60,000 each for a total of $180,000 to begin Phase II at the theatre this summer. In back, from left are board members Ruth Owens, Rose Roach, Gord Willms, Penny Gil, Ursula Tiessen, Sheilah Marans and Helen Huebert. (SUN Photo)
and a new uniform-height roof will be constructed to increase the stage size to meet theatrical standards, improve acoustics and sight lines and increase insulation and energy efficiency. Phase I was completed in the fall of 2012, which included bringing the building up to fire and building code regulations, building a lobby area, a concession area, a theatre stage and seating area, and exterior handicap ramp and installing the main floor handicap washroom. Approximately 1,750 volunteer hours of manual labour
went into Phase I. The theatre is currently set up for 100 seats. Phase III will upgrade the water and sewer connections to add more washrooms, which will allow them to double the capacity to 200. The final touch (hopefully) will be the 200 gradually raised seating. “We can’t increase seating until we get more washrooms, and we can’t add more washrooms until we increase our capacity… everything is in steps and depends on one being completed before we take on another,” said Penny Gil.
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Member of Parliament for Chatham-Kent Essex Dave Van Kesteren was in Leamington on Thursday, February 21. He took time out to take a quick tour of The Bank Theatre and Meeting Place with Bank Theatre President Penny Gil. Van Kesteren announced CIIF funding from the federal government. (SUN Photo)
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