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Amphitheater
Amphitheater. The City Center Renaissance Plan calls for a $2 million phased improvement to develop Riverfront Park, a key component to reconnect to the river and revitalize the City Center. Riverfront Park is a 14-acre park acquired from Jerome and Peggy Sheehan, who recognized the unique river access potential of the property. Riverfront Park will contain a festival space that includes an amphitheater with seating for at least 1,000 people and a grand lawn seating many more for outdoor events, concerts and festivals. The amphitheater is envisioned as the focal point and centerpiece of the park using native stone supported by a large, grand lawn. In cooperation with the city, naming rights of the amphitheater would be at the wishes of the dedicator.
This dedicated area will be used to celebrate the culture of Greater Mankato through dynamic efforts of recreational programming. It will be a trailhead to theSakatah and Red Jacket trail systems, a scenic non-motorized trail that is popular with pedestrians, cyclists and health enthusiasts.
Other opportunities that go with the amphitheater and this important link to the river corridor include:
- a pavilion of around 1,200 square feet ($250,000) which includes public restrooms, a lobby and a sheltered picnic area designed with a unique architecture found among the surrounding buildings of the Old Town area;
- art piece ($75,000)
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$2 million* (amphitheater) |
| $250,000* (pavilion) |
| $75,000* (art piece) |
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