Historic Fox renovations moving forward, group sets tentative opening season for fall 2020

Article by The Chronicle-News on December 12, 2019 updated March 4, 2020. Read full story at: www.thechronicle-news.com

by Garrett Watson

Excitement is building as efforts continue on the refurbishment of the Fox West Theatre on Main Street in Trinidad. Dana Crawford’s Downtown Development Group is currently overseeing the renovation of the building, purchased by the City of Trinidad, and Crawford is currently pushing to open for a first performance in fall of 2020.“

A concert is being considered at this juncture for September of next year,” said Dana Crawford. “The Colorado Symphony is planning on coming down to celebrate the 250 anniversary of Beethoven and we’ve been talking with the city about doing a big gala the night before as a street party.”

City of Trinidad Interim Manager Mike Valentine stated while he and the city would like to see things start happening next fall, there are several safety issues that need to be addressed before allowing the general public to be inside the theater. 

“There’s going to have to be some modifications and we would like to have entertainment in there as we’re trying to refurbish it,” said Valentine, “but I stressed that it has to be tentative. We have to make sure, safety wise, everything is OK to move ahead with that.”

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