OMAHA — A $108 million facility aimed at educating and drawing Nebraskans into the performing arts has officially opened in the downtown of the state’s most populated city.
The new Tenaska Center for Arts Engagement was funded primarily by private donors and boosted by about $9 million in public funds, said Joan Squires, president of Omaha Performing Arts.
“It’s just a momentous day to see the entire campus realized with the opening of the Tenaska Center,” she said Thursday following a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the 100,000-square-foot facility at 11th and Dodge Streets.
The center completes a campus long envisioned by the nonprofit Omaha Performing Arts that includes the Holland Center directly to the west and the Steelhouse Omaha live music venue to the north. Together, the pieces are known as the Dick & Mary Holland Campus…