Special Bd. of Aldermen — 01-22-2019 Page 4
area here and possibly VIP experience, the balcony level and patron services optimize number of positions and
placements of lighting positions and making sure there is ample off-stage loading for logistics.
So then there was a discussion about understanding what is the feel of the Performing Arts Center, what is the
experience going to be like? You know if you have something that is used with material as more wood as to
something that is something that is a little bit more industrial or raw you achieve different type of feelings and what
is the brand and what are you really trying to achieve in this space from a consumer experience? That is an on-
going conversation right now, we understand that it is limited by budged, this will be designed to a budget. But
what themes or what materials or elements are used and how they are used and placed is a conversation that is
occurring over the next few weeks.
Again, another example of how you can have these theaters and Performing Arts Center spaces and have them be
very, very different. Again, another view of some of these Performing Arts Center; this is a more traditional as to
something that is a little bit more contemporary or modern.
When you are talking about programming you are talking about the event mix types, community organizations, the
audience chamber and the stage, back of house, front of house and other spaces. We want to make sure that we
have understanding relative to what the exterior is going to be like in the marquee and this a conversation that just
again started, but one that we will be exploring further as the weeks come and really trying to understand what is
the marquee that we are trying achieve for downtown for Nashua and for Southern New Hampshire which is all
going to go towards the success of this venue.
This is just a showing of what Main Street Nashua looked like at one time; similar again this is all on Main Street
here in Nashua at one time. Here is something a little bit more of what was presented as differing types of
marquees to be discussed, you have that more traditional, you have something a little bit more dynamic, you have
different types of design. It all goes to the brand and the feel and the look of what you are trying to achieve which
the group is, again, beginning to discuss now.
Here are some more other recent designs of marquees and facades and how they use the fagade and the marquee
all to work together. Here it is again, another example, again something that should be noted is you should think
about the difference between daytime, which is this one, which is this one, which is an important element to keep in
the back of your mind as you are starting your design process. That is pretty much the highlight; this is a schedule
of where we are, we are just starting existing conditions and measuring, schematic design, design development
phase in 12 weeks from now, starting with the construction document phase in approximately 16 weeks. Ideally we
will start if we are successful in raising that $4 million dollars with non-City money construction would start with
some sort of early release packages or demolition and abatement sometime in the late summer, more likely early
fall type of time period. And then you'd really start construction as much as you could in that late fall/wintertime and
you’d end construction somewhere beginning of 2021. That is the schedule and process that the architect went
over the other evening.
That is just a very high-level overview of what we have been doing with the Performing Arts Center Steering
Committee over the last few weeks. We will be meeting again on January 30" and | will be before you again |
believe on February 26" to provide you with another update. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. We have 5 minutes for questions.
Alderman Lopez
So it was referred to as a theater in the presentation, is it still going to be flexible for conference use or that kind of
stuff during the week?
