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From: Gordon T Jackson <gtjackson987@qmail.com>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2020 5:32 PM
To: Board of Aldermen
Subject: Performing Arts Center (PAC)
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As a former performing musician, | have frequented many venues across the country, working back
stage on occasion and, building studios as well. | am in not in favor of the current Performing Arts
Center as proposed. What | envision for the arts community in Nashua would accomplish far more.
Good fortune has given me the opportunity recently to visit two remarkable facilities that support of
the arts. One in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, and the other in Ajo, Arizona. (see links below)
Housed in what was previously used, multi-floor school buildings, they now provide much needed
housing for the artisan community as well as space for practice, study, and rehearsal/performance
and art exhibition. This is a community where communication and collaboration is nurtured. A
laboratory for development of new artistic ideas. A place where adjunct supply or market businesses
can grow. Not just for performing arts, but all of the art forms. The list of possibilities is endless.
This space is available to us now. Future and current generations have invested wisely in one of the
finest performance spaces in New Hampshire. O'Keefe Auditorium and the Elm Street Middle School.
Continuing development and renovation of this historic landmark are well within the confines of the
established plans we have set out for ourselves/our city. Much of the organizational structure is
already in place.
| quote from the City of Nashua study on performance arts. “To this end, the Master Plan
recommends creating a second retail node along Main Street South between Otterson Avenue and
Salmon Brook Park. Anchored by the recently renovated Globe Plaza, now the Main Street
Marketplace, the Main Street South retail node will complement, but not compete with Main Street
North.”
May we, as a city -- as a community, pause and give thought to what might be. An artistic Meca, the
likes of nowhere else in New England.
Gordon Jackson
59 Cheyenne Dr.
Nashua, NH 03063
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