The Dairy Arts Center has officially purchased its longtime home at 2590 Walnut Street from the City of Boulder, a decision approved by City Council on August 7 that allows the city manager to transfer ownership of the building to the nonprofit organization that runs the Dairy. The decision returns full ownership of the multi-venue arts facility to the organization that has driven it for decades and marks a significant turning point in the Dairy’s history.
“This moment represents both a homecoming and a new beginning,” says Melissa Fathman, executive director of the Dairy Arts Center. “The Dairy was founded by artists who envisioned a space where creativity could flourish across all disciplines. To once again own our building is to reclaim that founding vision in the fullest sense.”
Constructed in 1970 as the Watts-Hardy Dairy, the industrial plant once processed milk for thousands of Boulder households. When the dairy closed in the 1980s, the vacant structure might have been lost to redevelopment…