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GLENDALE : $3 Million Asked to Fund Theaters for Arts District

Hoping to capitalize on the success of the newly renovated Alex Theatre, Glendale city staff members have asked the Redevelopment Agency for $3 million to fund several theaters as anchors for a cultural arts district.

The funding request proposes spending $2.5 million to build a 300-seat playhouse for the Colony Studio Theatre and budgets $500,000 for renovation efforts and rent assistance for a local theater company, A Noise Within.

The City Council, acting as the Redevelopment Agency, will consider the requests.

The theaters would join the 69-year-old Alex Theatre along the Brand Boulevard corridor as part of a theater district designed to attract businesses such as coffeehouses, bookstores and art galleries, said Jeanne Armstrong, Redevelopment Agency director.

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