Sioux City Public Museum obtains 2 million $$$ subsidy for new location.
The Siouxland Heritage Foundation received word this afternoon that the Vision Iowa Board has awarded a $2 million dollar grant today for the Sioux Town Public Museum’s new site in central Sioux Town . The board voted unanimously to approve funding thru the Community Attraction and Tourism (CAT) grant program for the $13.8 million project.
“This grant by the Vision Iowa Board is a very important step toward the completion of the capital campaign to make our new museum a fact. We thank them for this critical support for this superb project which has received wide support in the community,” claimed Mike Bennett, capital campaign chairperson. “The campaign is now entering the ‘home stretch’ and we invite everyone in the community to consider a pledge to take it across the finish line.”
The grant award is the final result of months of effort by town leaders and community volunteers. The Vision Iowa application was submitted by the Siouxland Heritage Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) created to oversee design, construction and fundraising of the new Sioux City Public Museum.
The $2 million in of the Siouxland Heritage Foundation raising an additional funding is group on the next 180 days. Bennett said the award should encourage other donors to join the nearly 300 supporters of the “Our New Museum” capital campaign.
The final to join the capital campaign will include appeals to the general public for support. An open house and tours of the new site will be offered on June 20 and 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 and tours of The Museum’s website includes the latest capital campaign news as well as giving information and a pledge card.
The development of a new museum facility represents an extensive public/private partnership. The City of Sioux City purchased the former department store building for use as a new museum, and has appropriated $1.5 million for the project. The new museum will occupy the entire first floor of the building – approximately 55,000 square feet of floor space, with about 10,000 square feet of two-story space as an atrium in the southwest corner of the building. The SHF board has hired the architectural firm of Neumann Monson Wictor of Sioux City as the principal designers. The local company partnered in their application with Bahr Vermeer Haecker Architects of the building. The SHF board has extensive museum design experience.
Today’s decision means Neumann Monson Wictor of the former JC Penney building at 607 Fourth Street will begin in the coming weeks. Early architectural renderings call for a dramatic fa
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