{"id":44358,"date":"2019-05-16T14:55:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T21:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/?p=44358"},"modified":"2019-05-16T14:55:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T21:55:23","slug":"we-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/we-did-it\/","title":{"rendered":"We Did It!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our General Manager, Mary Cutler, floated into the office this morning, arms swaying and voice sing-song: \u201cToday is a normal day. Let\u2019s all pretend it\u2019s a normal day.\u201d It is, decidedly, <\/span>not <\/span><\/i>a normal day. But we echoed her feigned calm and did our best to think about anything other than what was happening across the street. Our final inspection was underway. If given the thumbs up, the building\u2014after nearly two full seasons of renovation\u2014would officially be ours again. <\/span><\/p>\n

That calm pretense was traded for cheers as Mary shared the good news: we passed<\/strong>. <\/span>As of 11:46 am today, May 16,<\/b> Town Hall Seattle is no longer a construction site.<\/b><\/p>\n

The staff raced over and (without hard hats!) entered through the freshly painted 8th Ave doors, explored stairwells, and marveled at the Reading Room\u2019s bare but beautiful form. We gathered on the Great Hall stage to pop a bottle of champagne, toast one another and the community that made this possible\u2014and also to really feel what\u2019s on the horizon. Wier\u2019s toast hit home: \u201cTwenty years of Town Hall. And now, <\/span>right now,<\/span><\/i> we get to start it all again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019ve been with us since 1999, met us during Inside\/Out, or are stumbling across this post because a friend happened to share a link: <\/span>we are so incredibly glad you\u2019re here. <\/span><\/i>The future and possibilities of Town Hall have never been quite so bright, and each of us are necessary to manifesting its potential.<\/span><\/p>\n

We mean that in the grand sense, and also in the practical. <\/span>This summer is our soft launch; there\u2019s still a lot of fine tuning ahead of us and we need your help–your presence and participation–to get it right. <\/b>Please lend us your patience (and opinions!) as we grow into the new building, and we hope you\u2019ll enjoy new details coming into place every time you visit this spring and summer (from smaller items like wayfinding signage to big things like bar service and commissioned artwork). With your help, the building will be the best version of itself in time for our big Homecoming festival this September!<\/span><\/p>\n

Our very first event in the Great Hall is just days away (Tuesday, May 21), and we can\u2019t imagine a more fitting debut for the room. Joshua Roman, our longtime friend and Town Music Artistic Director, will lend us his virtuosic talents in a solo cello concert. <\/span>There are still a few tickets remaining<\/a><\/strong>, and we hope you\u2019ll join us to help mark the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even as we celebrate the end of our own renovation, we should note: more than just Town Hall has been under construction. Our full block is in the midst of being developed.<\/span> While the plaza and Ovation towers are being built<\/span><\/a>, the Forum is accessible via our new at-grade West Entrance, reachable from the loading zone on Seneca street.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our General Manager, Mary Cutler, floated into the office this morning, arms swaying and voice sing-song: \u201cToday is a normal day. Let\u2019s all pretend it\u2019s a normal day.\u201d It is, decidedly, <\/span>not <\/span><\/i>a normal day. But we echoed her feigned calm and did our best to think about anything other than what was happening across the street. Our final inspection was underway. If given the thumbs up, the building\u2014after nearly two full seasons of renovation\u2014would officially be ours again. <\/span><\/p>\n

That calm pretense was traded for cheers as Mary shared the good news: we passed<\/strong>. <\/span>As of 11:46 am today, May 16,<\/b> Town Hall Seattle is no longer a construction site.<\/b><\/p>\n

The staff raced over and (without hard hats!) entered through the freshly painted 8th Ave doors, explored stairwells, and marveled at the Reading Room\u2019s bare but beautiful form. We gathered on the Great Hall stage to pop a bottle of champagne, toast one another and the community that made this possible\u2014and also to really feel what\u2019s on the horizon. Wier\u2019s toast hit home: \u201cTwenty years of Town Hall. And now, <\/span>right now,<\/span><\/i> we get to start it all again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019ve been with us since 1999, met us during Inside\/Out, or are stumbling across this post because a friend happened to share a link: <\/span>we are so incredibly glad you\u2019re here. <\/span><\/i>The future and possibilities of Town Hall have never been quite so bright, and each of us are necessary to manifesting its potential.<\/span><\/p>\n

We mean that in the grand sense, and also in the practical. <\/span>This summer is our soft launch; there\u2019s still a lot of fine tuning ahead of us and we need your help–your presence and participation–to get it right. <\/b>Please lend us your patience (and opinions!) as we grow into the new building, and we hope you\u2019ll enjoy new details coming into place every time you visit this spring and summer (from smaller items like wayfinding signage to big things like bar service and commissioned artwork). With your help, the building will be the best version of itself in time for our big Homecoming festival this September!<\/span><\/p>\n

Our very first event in the Great Hall is just days away (Tuesday, May 21), and we can\u2019t imagine a more fitting debut for the room. Joshua Roman, our longtime friend and Town Music Artistic Director, will lend us his virtuosic talents in a solo cello concert. <\/span>There are still a few tickets remaining<\/a><\/strong>, and we hope you\u2019ll join us to help mark the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even as we celebrate the end of our own renovation, we should note: more than just Town Hall has been under construction. Our full block is in the midst of being developed.<\/span> While the plaza and Ovation towers are being built<\/span><\/a>, the Forum is accessible via our new at-grade West Entrance, reachable from the loading zone on Seneca street.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,9,26,15,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","category-editorial","category-featured","category-if-these-halls-could-talk","category-renovation-update","category-town-crier","category-town-hall-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}