(Estherville)– Plans to build a new performing arts center at the Estherville campus of Iowa Lakes Community College are being shelved for now, atleast.
The project, which would would have also included some classrooms and a gallery, has an estimated cost of seven million dollars.
Shan Ray, Executive Director of the Institutional Advancement/Foundations Office at ILCC, says the findings of a Strategic Readiness Assessment show it would be very difficult as of right now to raise money for such a project. As a result, she says they’re looking at a scaled-down project, such as building only the class rooms and a small gallery. She says that would be much more in line with the two million dollars in funding they currently have.
Ray says a time line to do that hasn’t been established yet.
Meanwhile the college, along with the Lakes Art Center, are working with the Spirit Lake School District to see if a collaborative effort can be worked out with the new “Sami Center” under construction at Spirit Lake High School.
