After receiving three construction bids over the City’s allotted budget, Hillsdale’s Tax Increment Finance Authority is reassessing project plans for rehabilitation on the Dawn Theater. TIFA received a $1.3 million grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to complete the project, and TIFA had passed a resolution that stated it was willing to help with...
The City of Hillsdale Tax Increment Finance Authority is currently accepting construction bids for the Dawn Theater Rehabilitation and Blight Elimination project. They have extended the deadline until Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 2 p.m. “We’re just chomping at the bit now to get this project going,” Hillsdale’s TIFA consultant Mary Wolfram said. According to Wolfram,...
It was out with the old and in with the new at the Dawn Theater this past Saturday. In an effort to clear the old performance venue for its long-awaited redevelopment, Hillsdale’s Tax Increment Financing Authority auctioned off every old item it could at the Dawn on Nov. 10. About 25 students and Hillsdale residents...
Hillsdale’s Tax Increment Financing Authority will hold an auction at the Dawn Theater Saturday, Nov. 10 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., where people will have the opportunity to purchase items from within the historic theatre. Mary Wolfram, Hillsdale’s TIFA consultant, said the funds from the auction will help purchase new audio-video equipment for the...
Despite turning off its projector more than 20 years ago, downtown Hillsdale’s historic Dawn Theater may soon play movies again. Members of Hillsdale’s Tax Increment Financing Authority (TIFA) and Director of Economic Development Mary Wolfram said that with the help of a new grant they will be able to renovate the nearly 100 year-old...