NORWAY — A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held Friday afternoon to celebrate the reopening of the first-floor storefronts at the Norway Opera House.
The event will be March 1 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., with the ribbon-cutting at 4:30 p.m. Tours of the project will be available.
Contractors have been working at the site since September 2012 as part of a $1 million renovation project by the Norway Opera House Corp. to restore the five, first-floor storefronts. They are now being leased out to re-establish the building’s central downtown commercial space.
H. E. Callahan Construction of Auburn was awarded the contract last summer to refurbish the storefronts. It is part of an overall plan to eventually restore the entire building.
The Opera House is the centerpiece of the downtown Norway National Historic District, which was designated in 1988.
The three-story brick edifice was built in 1894. It was once the center of community activities, but has been vacant since a partial roof collapse in September 2007. The town took it by eminent domain in 2011 due to its unsafe condition and turned it over to the Norway Opera House Corp. last year.
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