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About the Campaign
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Oliver McCaw Hall About the Campaign
TOTAL COST FOR McCAW HALL: $127 million FUND SOURCE: A public-private partnership with funding from city, county, and state sources and private gifts. PRIVATE PLEDGE GOAL: $72 million ARCHITECTS: LMN Architects OPENED: June 28, 2003
ABOUT THE BUILDING: Click here for Seattle Center's website and information about the amenities and design of Marion Oliver McCaw Hall.
CAMPAIGN STATUS: The private pledge goal of $72 million was completed soon after the hall opened. In December 2006, the campaign officially ended with less than one percent left uncollected.
USES: McCaw Hall's lead tenants are Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Opera. In addition, it houses favorite festivals such as Bumbershoot and Northwest Folklife Festival, welcomes world-famous performers ranging from B.B. King to George Carlin, and hosts private events from weddings to lectures.
HISTORY: The Civic Auditorium was originally built in 1928. A mostly cosmetic renovation changed the building into the Seattle Center Opera House in time for the 1962 World's Fair. By the 1990s, a seismic study found that extensive work needed to be done to bring the building up to code. Estimated to cost $90 million, the seismic upgrade would still leave the rest of the building as is with antiquated backstage areas dating back to 1928. A completely new building would cost approximately $200 million. Thus was born the idea of a transformation consisting of 30% renovation, reusing the foundation and basic framework of the auditorium, combined with 70% new construction for an essentially new building that retained the excellent acoustics of the old. The transformation also saved an estimated $75 million and lasted only 18 months. A completely new building was estimated to take nearly double that amount of time to build.
Photo by Carson Jones
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