Holy Cross' $107M performing arts building on track for 2022 opening
Photo | Grant Welker
A new performing arts center has begun rising from a construction site near the Hogan Campus Center at College of the Holy Cross.
Image | Courtesy | College of the Holy Cross
A rendering of what the completed Prior Performing Arts Center will look like
A $107-million performing arts center is starting to rise at the top of Mount St. James at College of the Holy Cross.
The Prior Performing Arts Center, named after 1956 graduate Neil Prior, who gave a $25-million gift for the facility, is slated to be complete in the fall of 2021 and ready for full use for the start of the 2022 spring semester.
Site work began this summer at what had been a parking lot between Healy Hall, a residential building, and the Luth Athletic Complex.
The arts center will include a 400-seat concert hall and theater Holy Cross says will serve as the college's principal venue for symphonic music, chamber music and jazz. It will have a 200-seat flexible theater space, support space including a costume shop and recording studio, as well as multimedia teaching space and the Cantor Art Gallery, which will move from its current home at O'Kane Hall.
The center is one of two major facilities underway at Holy Cross, along with the Joanne Chouinard-Luth Recreation and Wellness Center, a 52,000-square-foot building to host campus recreation and intramural sports, including sports courts, weight rooms and other features. The $30-million facility is replacing the Field House, which was built in 1947.
That building, nicknamed The Jo, is named after the wife of John Luth, a 1974 Holy Cross graduate. The couple has donated $40 million, the largest in the college's history, with $25 million having already gone toward expansion of the Hart Center, now known as the Hart Center at the Luth Athletic Complex.
The recreation center is set to be completed in the fall of 2020.
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