FAYETTEVILLE — TheatreSquared’s top choice for a new, permanent facility is a 54-space parking lot across the street from the nonprofit theater company's current home in Nadine Baum Studios, according to Martin Miller, TheatreSquared’s executive director.
Miller expressed interest in the location in an Aug. 27 letter to Mayor Lioneld Jordan.
Fayetteville City Council members at their Oct. 6 meeting are scheduled to consider a resolution expressing their intent to lease or sell the parking lot to TheatreSquared for a new facility.
“Staff fully supports this endeavor, as we believe the impact of an expanded, unique professional theater in the downtown can be a significant draw for tourism and economic development,” Jeremy Pate, Fayetteville’s Development Services director, said in a memo to Mayor Jordan and the City Council. “In combination with the Walton Arts Center expansion and the amenities that downtown Fayetteville has to offer, this facility, if fully realized, will add to the Northwest Arkansas region’s arsenal of cultural amenities.”
For the past several months, the city-owned parking lot southeast of Spring Street and West Avenue has been used as a construction staging area while the Spring Street municipal parking deck is being built.