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Committee approves $5 million Arboretum event center project; members request business plan
Summary
The Ways and Means Committee approved creating a $5 million capital project to build a 225-person, roughly 8,000 sq. ft. Arboretum Event Center but asked staff for a business plan, operator/lease strategy and rental comparisons to existing county venues before operations begin.
Orange County’s Ways and Means Committee voted Dec. 17 to create a $5 million capital project to construct an event center at the Arboretum, a roughly 8,000-square-foot facility designed to hold about 225 people.
Presenter Jamie Reggione, with Deputy Commissioner Greg Floyd introduced renderings and described a 40-by-100-foot event room and a full kitchen. Staff said the facility is intended for weddings, receptions and corporate events and that earlier design work was funded with ARPA; the $5 million request would create a new capital project…
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