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City hears multi-million-dollar plan for Virginia Museum of Natural History campus in Waynesboro
Summary
Museum officials presented design, visitor and economic assumptions for a proposed 28,000-square-foot Virginia Museum of Natural History campus in downtown Waynesboro and described next steps in seeking state construction funding.
City officials and museum representatives on July 28 updated Waynesboro City Council on plans for a Virginia Museum of Natural History campus in downtown Waynesboro.
Greg Hitchen, the council’s liaison to the project, and Dr. Joe Kuiper, executive director of the museum, described a planned two-story, 28,000-square-foot facility to be built on a city-owned downtown parking lot. The project team estimates a total project cost of $36 million, a conservative annual attendance projection of about 65,000 visitors and an initial economic-impact estimate of…
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