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In addition to the Civic Theatre, Michigan State University medical school and a new performing arts center, Grand Action has a fourth, as yet unannounced project remaining on the drawing board:
“The ‘mystery’ project that I have not divulged, we have not divulged and will not divulge — we’re still working on that — has been kind of put on the side burner, not the back burner, since we were approached by an anonymous donor or donors with regard to the Civic Theatre, and then, of course, later in the spring by the possible relocation of Michigan State medical school,” said Frey.
“Those two things, because of their timeline and out of necessity have kind of put this mystery project, so to speak, on the side burner. We’re still working on it, but we had to deal with the ones that needed to be dealt with right away, and those were the Civic Theatre and MSU medical school.”
As to the mystery project he said: “It’s still out there. It’s very exciting, but it is still yet to be announced.”
Frey said Grand Action won’t know what role it has, if any, in the relocation of the Med School until it gets the report from Deloitte & Touche around Labor Day.
Frey said a new downtown performing arts center is something some of the arts groups (ballet, symphony, opera, Broadway Theatre Guild) — are “noodling” on right now and trying to give it some definition. He said Win Irwin or Chuck Royce might have some thoughts on what a performing arts center might include.
“As the new hotel comes on stream and as the convention center becomes more and more visible and more and more people come to the city from all over the country, the demand for the use of DeVos Performance Hall is going to increase noticeably.
“Somewhere out there on the three- to five- to seven-year horizon there’s going to be increasing pressure and need and demand for a facility dedicated to use by the performing arts. The arts groups are saying with increasingly one voice that we need a dedicated performing arts center.”
“The ‘mystery’ project that I have not divulged, we have not divulged and will not divulge — we’re still working on that — has been kind of put on the side burner, not the back burner, since we were approached by an anonymous donor or donors with regard to the Civic Theatre, and then, of course, later in the spring by the possible relocation of Michigan State medical school,” said Frey.
“Those two things, because of their timeline and out of necessity have kind of put this mystery project, so to speak, on the side burner. We’re still working on it, but we had to deal with the ones that needed to be dealt with right away, and those were the Civic Theatre and MSU medical school.”
As to the mystery project he said: “It’s still out there. It’s very exciting, but it is still yet to be announced.”
Frey said Grand Action won’t know what role it has, if any, in the relocation of the Med School until it gets the report from Deloitte & Touche around Labor Day.
Frey said a new downtown performing arts center is something some of the arts groups (ballet, symphony, opera, Broadway Theatre Guild) — are “noodling” on right now and trying to give it some definition. He said Win Irwin or Chuck Royce might have some thoughts on what a performing arts center might include.
“As the new hotel comes on stream and as the convention center becomes more and more visible and more and more people come to the city from all over the country, the demand for the use of DeVos Performance Hall is going to increase noticeably.
“Somewhere out there on the three- to five- to seven-year horizon there’s going to be increasing pressure and need and demand for a facility dedicated to use by the performing arts. The arts groups are saying with increasingly one voice that we need a dedicated performing arts center.”
