The only arts group to lose its home on 9/11 is among the more than 100 organizations in the running for millions of dollars in federal funds designed to breathe new artistic life into lower Manhattan.
Each has applied for a piece of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation's Cultural Enhancement Funds, a $35 million pot of federal 9/11 money set aside for the arts. The deadline was Dec. 22, and the awards are expected be announced within weeks.
"This is a great opportunity," said David Bennett, managing director of Dance New Amsterdam, formerly the Dance Space Center, which hopes to build a studio and theater. ". . . We have a chance to reinvent [downtown] as a cultural destination."
3-Legged Dog, which lost its home in the terror attack, hopes to open a 180-seat theater and a 15,000-square-foot rehearsal space on Feb. 1. It has spent nearly $5 million but needs $1.5 million more to complete a 2,800-square- foot performance space.
It's interesting that this group has to compete among a variety of groups for a Cultural Enhancement Fund, but The Drawing Center was given $10 million to go towards relocating somewhere else in Lower Manhattan - and which appears headed towards a structure to be built upon the site of the former Fulton Fish Market.
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