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Community arts groups ask city for sustained support; Dance Complex seeks $3.5M facade repairs
Summary
During public comment, Community Arts Center and others urged protection of legacy arts spaces, equitable funding, and artist housing. The Dance Complex detailed capital needs including a first-phase $3.5 million facade project and broader repairs estimated at roughly $30 million.
During the committee's public comment period, speakers representing Cambridge arts organizations described urgent capital and operating needs and urged the city and philanthropic partners to protect long-standing community arts spaces.
Marisol Rosa, development manager at the Community Arts Center, thanked Cambridge Arts for an organizational investment grant and said the center “serves a population that is largely low income, heavily immigrant, and decidedly black and brown.” She asked…
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