Downtown Lansing's Riverwalk Theatre is benefitting from a $300,000 expansion project that started in 2007.
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Walking past shelves full of relocated objects in the prop room at Riverwalk Theatre last week, something caught Bill Helder’s attention.
“For crying out loud; that harness used to hang in the lobby of the old Okemos Barn,” Helder said, stopping and shaking his head at the sentimental piece of horse tack. “I’m sure that’s one of the things that surfaced when we got to the bottom of that pile of stuff there.”
That pile of stuff has since been replaced with an 80-seat black box studio theater, the centerpiece in the downtown community theater’s $300,000 expansion project that began with a fundraising campaign launched in early 2007 and includes an enlarged lobby, women’s restroom and additional rehearsal and storage space. Major donors for the project include The Dart Foundation, Cool Cities and the Rotary Foundation.
Helder, capital campaign co-chairman at Riverwalk, said with the latest additions, the building’s entire 15,750 square feet of available space has been developed.
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