Show Business: SMR cancels $30M theater project in Lakewood Ranch

The show will not go on for The Players Centre of Performing Arts' new complex that was planned to reside within the Waterside Place development.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 5:02 p.m. March 28, 2022
File. The rendering of the $30 million theater complex in Lakewood Ranch.
File. The rendering of the $30 million theater complex in Lakewood Ranch.
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SARASOTA — In dramatic terms, the plan for a $30 million theater complex to house the The Players Centre of Performing Arts in Lakewood Ranch is dead.

 

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