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Article: Municipal Auditorium has future with Clay
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- February 23, 2003
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Local officials have talked about fixing it up, selling it off or
tearing it down. But Charleston's aging Municipal Auditorium doesn't
appear to be going anywhere in the near future.
The 3,000- to 3,500-seat auditorium, now more than 60 years old,
recently came to the rescue of Charleston's much-touted Clay Center
for the Arts and Sciences, when officials were forced to push back a
mid-February opening date for the $100 million facility.
Faced with the prospect of an opening delayed until at least May,
Clay Center officials decided to move the entire West Virginia
Symphony season and several other events scheduled for the Clay
Center's opening season back to the ...