We are pleased to announce that ISSUE Project Room has been granted an additional $1.1 million by the City of New York for construction of our theater at 110 Livingston Street! These funds are in addition to the $1 million previously granted in 2009 by the Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, and comes from the NY Department of Cultural Affairs ($500K), and Council Member Stephen Levin together with the Brooklyn Delegation and Council Member Brad Lander ($600K).
ISSUE has now raised $2.3 million towards the $3.7 million in costs necessary for the project.
We owe a tremendous thanks to you and everyone in our community whose unwavering support during the past two years of intense transition, helped to insure that we could reach this successful point.
Our next task is to raise $425,000 by December 31, 2011 to support the architectural and engineering design of the space. This past winter, we developed our vision for the space and produced cost estimates and initial concept renderings. We now need to move forward with the full designs.
If we are successful in raising these funds by December, we can move forward swiftly with the design process and open our new home in the fall of 2013.
Thank you again for all of your support. We'll be in contact as the project progresses. Until then, please keep an eye out for our fall newsletter,which you will be receiving within a few weeks, as well as the invitation for our October 1st Fall Art Auction and November 2nd Benefit Gala.
Warm regards,
Steve Wax, Board Chair
Ed Patuto, Executive Director