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Sammamish arts groups ask city to open Building 120 as community performance space

5767124 · September 17, 2025
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Performing arts groups and cultural organizers told the City Council on Sept. 16 that Building 120 could be a permanent, flexible arts and community hub and urged the city to partner on access rather than request operating funds.

Spotlight Repertory Northwest and local cultural organizers urged the Sammamish City Council on Sept. 16 to permit community arts groups to use City-owned Building 120 as a home for theater, classes and other civic programming.

The request came during public comment from Frances Garcia Hoffman, founder and director of Spotlight Repertory Northwest. "Spotlight has no home," Garcia Hoffman said, recounting that the group's recent full-scale youth musical had to be staged in Issaquah because there is no suitable,…

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