Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities

Colorado

This suburban arts center runs Colorado's third-largest theatre company.

culture

Two and a half miles off the road sits a building that outgrew itself three times over. The Arvada Center opened in nineteen seventy-six as a single cultural facility northwest of Denver. Demand for space came almost immediately. A major expansion approved in nineteen ninety-two nearly doubled the place. Then in two thousand two came another one, priced at sixty-nine million dollars. The architects proposed doing the work in two phases. The Arvada City Council overruled them and voted for three. The second phase finished in two thousand six, adding a performing-arts shop, dressing rooms with showers, and sixty new parking spaces. The third phase was not due for completion until twenty eighteen. What all that construction now holds is three theatres, ten thousand square feet of art galleries, an amphitheater, classrooms, and a history museum. It counts as the thirteenth largest cultural attraction in metro Denver, and it operates the third-largest theatre company in Colorado.

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Colorado's third-largest theatre company

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