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Meridian redevelopment project moves ahead.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 28-MAR-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
MERIDIAN -- The Victorian-era Grand Opera House here, quiet and dark since 1927. is now alive with activity as a renovation project to restore the old structure to its original 1890s grandeur is under way.

Construction will be completed by May 2006, and a reopening is planned for the end of summer, probably in August. according to executive director Dennis Sankovich.

It has taken both private and public money and the involvement of Mississippi State University (MSU) to make the $31-million renovation possible.

The Riley Foundation, which awarded the project a $10-million grant in 1999, has just announced that it is donating an additional $2.1 million. When it opens, the opera house and two...

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