The firm that manages the Richmond Coliseum said yesterday that it has taken over management of the Landmark Theater and Richmond CenterStage.

 

Seven years in the making. Fourteen months to go. Construction on the Richmond CenterStage performing-arts center downtown remains on schedule for an opening in September 2009.

 

CenterStage Foundation will propose a parking plan for the performing arts center next month. Foundation officials are concerned that not enough spaces will be available during performances when the center opens in September 2009.

 

A contract to build an arts center in downtown Richmond was inked yesterday, more than six years after the project was announced and a day after City Council approved it.

 

City Council sealed the deal last night for building an arts center in downtown Richmond.

 

After more than six years of fanfare, fights and fundraising flops, Richmond's latest downtown arts-center plan will come before the City Council tomorrow.

 

Here are members of the Virginia Performing Arts Foundation Board.

 

The renovation of the former Miller & Rhoads building into a hotel and condominium project is taking shape, on time and on budget.

 

Stories regarding the proposed downtown performing arts center provoke neither elation nor ire but weariness -- which of the emotions may be the worst.

 

Paperwork snag may delay vote by full Richmond council.

 

Richmond City Council will vote Sept. 10 on a proposed public-private agreement to build an arts center in downtown Richmond.

 

A project document suggests the proposed cost to build an arts center in downtown Richmond is over budget, but officials aren't saying.

 

Richmond taxpayers might do more than help build the downtown arts center. They also might pay to keep the lights on and bathrooms clean.

 

Richmond Mayor L. Douglas Wilder and the Virginia Performing Arts Foundation have outlined their deal to build an arts center in downtown.

 

Crews have started on what's expected to be at least five months of demolition work to prepare the 1928 landmark for a major renovation and expansion.

 

Reports about the dilapidated state of the Sixth Street Marketplace sound yet another cautionary note for advocates of publicly financed development projects.

 

Demolition work at the Carpenter Center is expected to start soon without a formal agreement on the arts center that's planned for downtown Richmond.

 

Mayor L. Douglas Wilder announced yesterday the leaders of a nonprofit corporation that will help guide the development of an arts center in downtown Richmond.

 

The arts center proposed six years ago to help revitalize a barren stretch of downtown Richmond will move forward this afternoon with a groundbreaking and street party.

 

The technical framework for an arts center in downtown Richmond is taking shape as the project nears its June 1 groundbreaking.