If you visit the future home of the Sarasota Orchestra’s planned music center on Fruitville Road, the only music you’ll hear might be the sounds of birds and other wildlife, or maybe a radio from a passing car.
It will be several years before a new building is ready, but the orchestra, which initially hoped to stay in downtown Sarasota , has been moving carefully and cautiously through the planning process to prepare for the design, fundraising and construction stages of the new facility.
A little more than a year ago, the orchestra closed on the purchase of a 32-acre tract just west of Interstate 75. The property is still covered with brush and grass, and it will likely be early 2026 before design plans are completed and construction can begin.
The orchestra’s building committee has been studying proposals from more than a dozen firms that might be chosen as the design architect to create the building’s overall look, though the committee decided not to publicly identify the companies.