Why the campaign is important
The WT Sustainability Campaign is important, Wilson said, "because the theatre is the anchor of the neighborhood, and we badly need to address energy waste, oudated technologies and damage to our facade."
Campaign Goals
Community Media Center (CMC) and Rockford Construction have partnered to complete the Sustainability Campaign, and implementation will begin in early 2013, with a focus on "containment" - ways to keep energy (heat, cool) inside the building, and to use less of it. This will help the theatre to contain costs permanently, going forward.
Additional Goals
Beautification in the back parking lot facing Sigsbee Street, repairs to the beautifully detailed - but badly damaged - facade at the front of the building, facing Wealthy Street. A focus on refreshing key technologies (projection, video recording, audio) that make Wealthy Theatre a viable venue for educators, performers, musicians, dancers, independent filmmakers and churches.
This is Historic Preservation
Giving a Christmas present to Wealthy Theatre is not only an investment in accessibility by underserved populations - it's support for historic preservation, using innovation and greening technologies to become more cost-efficient.
Wealthy Theatre is a service of the Grand Rapids Community Media Center, a local 501c3 nonprofit organization. Contirbutions to this campaign are tax deductable to the fullest extent of the law.