Project Updates
🔎 Take A Look Inside The Victory Theatre Progress
🚨ACTION At The Victory Theatre🚨
Exciting developments have been happening at the Victory since our last update!
See all the progress completed so far: READ MORE
News Article: Victory Theatre rehab in Holyoke nears key hurdle, as bid docs for $71M project nearly ready
Daily Hampshire Gazette
Published: 06-30-2024 3:00 PM
HOLYOKE — Construction bid documents for the $71 million planned rehabilitation and reopening of the 1920 Broadway-style Victory Theatre in downtown are expected to be finalized by the end of summer — a good sign for a project that many believe will be transformational for the region’s arts scene and serve as an economic catalyst for Holyoke: READ MORE
Photo Credit: Don Sanders, executive director of MIFA Victory Theatre, shows the Tiffany glass windows inside the Victory Theatre building. FOR THE GAZETTE/DAN LITTLE
Video: Holyoke Development and Government Relations Committee on 6/6/2024
MIFA Victory Theatre Executive Artistic Director Don Sanders, Victory Theatre Project Manager Susan Palmer, Matt Jacobs Barr & Barr Construction Manager, Brad Foster Accountant, Fleur Kuhta Administrative Assistant present to the Committee in response to community questions about the Victory Theatre Project.
Development and Government Relations Committee contact page: https://www.holyoke.org/dgr-cc/
Item 5: 2-6-24 From David Weinberg, communication regarding Victory Theater
Item 6: 6-4-24 MiFA response to Mr. Weinberg's letter and addendums
🚨Exciting News: Action at the Victory Theatre🚨
MIFA Victory Theatre Project Construction Team, architects Durkee, Brown, Viveiros & Werenfels (DBVW), and project construction team Barr & Barr have devised a strategy for the next steps in the Victory Theatre restoration and set forth a plan of action. Here is what has been completed so far:
Drone Photos by Odeh Engineers
Construction Team:
DBVW/ Durkee, Brown, Viveiros & Werenfels Architects
Rivet Roofing
Ryan LLC
Odhe Engineering
Newsletter April 26, 2024: https://conta.cc/3QlGE8z
Newsletter December 8, 2023: https://conta.cc/3Rz0DBv
Newsletter November 14, 2023: https://conta.cc/49M9dUS
Victory Theatre Mural Restoration Complete
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE RESTORATION IS COMPLETE
THE VICTORY THEATRE MURALS ARE IN HOLYOKE
HOLYOKE, MA - MIFA Victory Theatre is excited to announce the Victory Theatre’s historic murals restoration project is complete. Expert restorationists Evergreene Architectural Arts of New York City fully restored the two 23-foot-tall Vincent Maragliotti WPA murals on April 8, 2024. Evergreen’s team moved the murals back to Holyoke masterfully implementing and overseeing their protective storage where they will await reinstallation. The mural's completion is a key step in bringing us closer to a reopened theater. A future public exhibition of the completed murals is in development, stay tuned.
“What a wonderful achievement for MIFA and the City of Holyoke. A significant piece of the city’s history has been preserved for future generations. The mural restoration represents a terrific cooperation between MIFA and the Community Preservation Act Committee, among other donors, and a special shoutout should go to Kip Foley and Meagan Magrath (CPA Committee Chairs), and their committees, and to Michael J. Sullivan for making this happen.”
- Don Sanders, MIFA Executive Artistic Director
Full Press Release here: Restoration Complete
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Press coverage:
Historic murals restored at Victory Theatre in Holyoke
By SCOTT MERZBACH, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Published: 04-19-2024 3:17 PM
Restoration of Victory Theatre murals complete
by Trent Levakis | May 7, 2024 | Hampden County, Holyoke, Local News, The Reminder
Holyoke holds 3rd annual ‘Doors Open’ event to celebrate 150th anniversary
"HOLYOKE, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - This month marks Holyoke’s 150th year anniversary. The city celebrated Saturday by hosting the 3rd annual Doors Open Holyoke event. It began this morning around 9 a.m. and wrapped up at noon.
Doors Open invites the community to see behind the doors of places not usually open to the public.
It connects residents to local places of historical, cultural, and architectural significance. This year, some of the locations included in this event were the Victory Theatre, H.H. Richardson Station, the Holyoke Fire Department, and more." - Copyright 2023. Western Mass News (WGGB/WSHM). All rights reserved.
MIFA Victory Theatre announces a $1 million grant from community philanthropists!
Long-time MIFA supporters John and Elizabeth Armstrong recently pledged a
$1 Million Dollar Gift to the Victory Theatre Project!
"The generosity the Armstrongs have shown MIFA Victory Theatre is beyond words. They bestow such uplifting support for the arts in our community, and MIFA is lucky to call them friends." - Donald Sanders
Victory Theatre Mural Exhibit
Photos by Don Treeger / The Republican 3/8/2023
This muralist lifted Holyoke’s spirits during World War II; the fight today is to bring his works back to life, By Dennis Hohenberger | Special to The Republican, Updated: Mar. 10, 2023, 11:31 a.m. | Published: Mar. 08, 2023, 6:41 p.m., Masslive.com
Western Mass Delegation Visit Victory
Masslive.com Photo Gallery
By Don Treeger | dtreeger@repub.com
Holyoke Victory Theater project gets support from Western Massachusetts legislators
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023, 7:28 p.m. | Published: Jan. 23, 2023, 7:21 p.m.\
By Dennis Hohenberger | Special to The Republican
HOLYOKE – “This isn’t a Holyoke project. It’s a Western Massachusetts regional project,” Mayor Joshua A. Garcia told a delegation of state legislators who visited the long-shuttered Victory Theater today. “I’m hoping we can be strategic and specific and focused as possible to figure out how to close (the funding) gap.” READ MORE
Victory Theater tour brings hope for Holyoke arts, economic development
WWLP22 News, January 23, 2023
Mayor Joshua Garcia of Holyoke explored one of his city’s most pleasant possibilities on Monday.
Business West: A Year In Review
Year In Review
By George O'Brien, December 23, 2022
Victory Theatre Project Gains Momentum
Holyoke officials and groups involved with the arts have been engaged in efforts to try to revitalize the historic Victory Theatre for more than 40 years now. And while this initiative still has a ways to go before it can cross the goal line, some significant progress was seen this past year...