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County hopes stimulus brings this building to life

Posted on March 18th, 2009 – 12:34 PM
By James Shiffer

shubert.JPGThe Minnesota Shubert moved to 5th Street and Hennepin Avenue a decade ago, but no one has yet taken the stage, nor have the crowds taken their seats. Instead, it’s a vacant curiosity for the folks waiting for the bus and train or staggering out of the nearby bars. Fundraising for the Shubert has stalled about $5 million short of the $41 million goal, so now the Hennepin County commissioners hope they can finally “give dance a home” with the help of federal stimulus money, my colleague Mary Jane Smetanka reports.

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5 Responses to “County hopes stimulus brings this building to life”

  1. Dan Says:
    March 18th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    Can someone please tell me why this entry is in the “Whistleblower” column? Who’s blowing the whistle on what?

  2. James Shiffer Says:
    March 19th, 2009 at 8:55 am

    Whistleblower has many missions. One of them is alerting people about how government is spending their money. This is one of a half dozen posts I’ve written about the stimulus spending.

  3. DGB Says:
    March 19th, 2009 at 11:42 am

    IMO, the Schubert is just a money pit. A shell of a building. Needs to be completely rebuilt. Why not just build a new building?

    If my math is correct, they have raised $36 million, and need another $5 million. Talk about wasteful spending when the state is running a 4 billion dollar shortfall, and we’re spending money on stuff like this?

    We already have three larger theatres downtown. Why do we need another one?

  4. Peep Game Says:
    March 20th, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    No mention of the Game murals on the side? Shameful!

  5. Stu Says:
    March 20th, 2009 at 8:27 pm

    If we steal bailout (ie agenda) money for this money pit
    I promise to make those responsible famous by dragging
    their name through every talking head show i can find
    and they love blasting some dumb city official. This pit
    will never make any money and will forever be just
    another welfare case. It’s a better investment to knock
    it down, and use the 36m to support some of the other
    art-pits.

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