INVESTMENTS IN BAILEY

Federal funding of $2,220,250 is being provided through the Community Adjustment Fund (CAF) as part of Canada’s Economic Action Plan. The Government of Alberta is providing $250,000 through the Municipal Sustainability Initiative (MSI) and $45,000 through the Alberta Main Street Program for the final phase of restoration. The total restoration cost for the final phase is expected to be $4,440,500, which includes significant funding support from private donors.

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A major announcement regarding the restoration of the Bailey Theatre will be made Thursday afternoon..........

Cleaning the Marquee

Work has started to restore the marquee on the front of the theatre.

The first step is CO2 blasting the metal panels. Using dryice (frozen carbon dioxide) is less abrasive than sand blasting.

The last row of concrete blocks is installed on the shaft for the freight elevator.

A mason starts the last row of concrete block on the south wall of the addition. The north wall is more than three-quarters completed.

The rear and internal block walls should be completed before the city begins work to upgrade and re-pave the alley later this month.

The walls for the addition should be completed by next week.

Up go the walls

Masons have started building the concrete block walls for the addition to the south Annex.

The Annex houses the loading dock and the freight elevator.

Addition floor in place

Architect David Roth checks the floor of the addition to the Bailey Annex, south of the auditorium.

The mason will begin building the block walls today!!!

Design Committee Tour

Some members of the design committee... David Roth, Teresa Roth and Judy McLean...tour the Bailey as discussions begin on some of the finishing details of the theatre.

Judy and Patricia Fielding have researched the historic colours for the auditorium by going through the layers of paint on the pressed metal walls.

Mural

Camrose artist Audrey Pfannmuller has started her mural on the plywood covering the front of the Bailey Theatre.