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Owners of Red Lodge Pecannery seek $500,000 for life‑safety systems to open public art museum
Summary
The owners of the Red Lodge Pecannery asked the committee for $500,000 to fund life‑safety systems — fire alarm, sprinklers, passenger elevator and exit stair — they said are required before public opening of the proposed art museum; applicants said they already spent nearly $1 million on stabilization and masonry work.
Sofia Payne, an architect and one of the owners of the Red Lodge Pecannery, testified that her team seeks $500,000 in Montana Historic Preservation Grant funding to install life‑safety and accessibility systems needed to open the large landmark former cannery as a public art museum.
Payne described the building’s history — originally a 1910 brewery converted to a cannery in 1926 — and said the project is a preservation and rehabilitation effort to create multi‑floor exhibition space,…
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