Cultural arts center on time, on budget

CENTERVILLE (Davis County Clipper) — Though the props and actors are still nearly a year away, the bricks and mortar are already starting to take the shape of the stages that will be waiting for them.

Construction is progressing on schedule and within budget at the Davis Cultural Arts Center (DCAC), with crews having already built the main stage area to its full height. Currently, they’re working out from there, including the masonry on the black box theater.

Though the building won’t be completed until the end of this year, vertical construction on the smaller theater should go a long way toward giving the theater its final shape.

“It will be interesting when you see the black box walls go up,” said Centerville City Assistant Manager Blaine Lutz. “People will start to get an idea of the real dimensions of the building.”

Though the main theater will stay mostly roughed-in for the moment, it is possible to make out the space for the flyloft (the open area above the stage that holds the counterweights and pulleys needed for certain scenery and effects). Crews also recently did some structural work on the theater’s risers, which will later hold seating.

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