Marathon County would keep paying for major repairs on the former UWSP at Wausau theater building next year under a proposed $1 lease that delays the building’s sale to 2028.
“The lease allows the initial transition to occur with MCAC paying for all operational costs and the County retaining ownership and responsibility for major building systems,” Chris Holman, the county’s deputy administrator of public works and capital projects, wrote in a memo to committee members.
MCAC is the Marathon Center for Arts and Culture Corp., a nonprofit formed this year to run the Center for Civic Engagement at 625 Stewart Ave., home of the James F. Veninga Theater. The one-year lease would run from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2027, with the full $1 in rent due on the first day…