In 2023, the Town of Estes Park and its consultant, Design Concepts, began evaluating the feasibility of a new Performing Arts Center at the Town-managed Estes Park Events Complex at Stanley Park.
This effort is in coordination with the Fine Arts Guild of the Rockies, which hopes to build a performing arts facility in the future.
Currently, the Town is seeking public input on this concept so that it can consider if the existing Events Complex Master Plan should be revised to include a performing arts center as a potential, future component of the complex.
The Events Complex is bordered by Community Drive, US 36, Fourth Street and Manford Avenue. The project team has identified a potential location for an arts center just east of the Estes Park Museum.
Currently, this area supports event camping, horse paddocks, drainage detention facilities and storage areas.
The project team is requesting public feedback through a survey which takes approximately 5 minutes and will remain open until Oct. 4. To take the survey, click here.
Additionally, there will be an open house to discuss the feasibility study Oct. 1 at 5 pm at the Estes Park Museum, located at 200 4th Street.
The next step in the process will be for the Town Board to review the information collected and determine any next steps.
The project at-a-glance:
- The Fine Arts Guild of the Rockies would like to build a facility for visual, performing, and immersive arts at the Estes Park Events Complex, which is managed by the Town or Estes Park.
- The Fine Arts Guild would independently raise all necessary funds for the construction and operation of the facility.
- The Town of Estes Park and/or FAGR would be required to fund and implement site improvements of over $7 million to accommodate a new performing arts facility.
For more information, contact Rob Hinkle, the town’s director for events and visitor services at rhinkle@estes.org or 970-577-3901.
Please note that this survey is a bait-and-switch. It asks if folk are generally supportive of an arts complex. It never asks the pertinent question- how supportive are folk of the town spending over $7M on site improvements needed for the complex. Shame on the authors of this survey and the proponents of this arts complex for this garbage survey.
Just no. Enough already.
How about if the town pays the outlandish bills it still has for this crazy road plan thru town first before dedicated more money that the tax payers are responsible for whether they agree with it or not. I pay my bills BEFORE I start charging more that will come with increased taxes over the years. I’d love it if our Board of Trustees will follow that same ideology–pay your existing bills first–then maybe, just maybe the townspeople will have faith in our administrators that they show common sense with their great plans!