Performance arts center breaks ground at Brooklyn’s historic Tobacco Warehouse
After a hotly contested beginning, ground was broken on Thursday for a 25,000-square-foot performing arts center and community hub to be built within the iconic Tobacco Warehouse in DUMBO.
The event marked the beginning of a renovation project that will transform the roofless Tobacco Warehouse into the performing arts center, which is estimated to cost $27 million. It will serve as a permanent home for St. Ann’s Warehouse, a performing-arts institution that has been in Brooklyn since 1980. The renovated space is slated to open in 2015.