Art center receives grant for new elevator – Reporter.net: Local News
Art center receives grant for new elevator The matching grant dollars will allow the art center to replace a freight-only elevator that is more than 100 years old with a new passenger elevator.

Reporter file photoOLD TO BECOME NEW AGAIN: Karen Wright, president of the Sugar Creek Art Center board, shows off the art centeras century-old freight elevator, that is not fit for passenger use. The art center was given a $75,000 matching grant from the Community Foundation of Boone County in 2013 and recently reached its fundraising goal to receive the matching funds.

After a year and a half of fundraising, the Sugar Creek Art Center will soon be able to install a new passenger elevator in the century-old building, due in part to a grant by the Community Foundation of Boone County.

The art center announced in October of 2013 that the freight-only elevator would soon be out of commission unless $75,000 was raised for a matching grant from the community foundation.

The Community Foundation of Boone County gave the art center a challenge grant in 2013.