“The new Performing Arts Theater was done jointly between the high school and a non-profit arts group working together,” Charlie Mitchell head of the Grants Pass EDC told me. He went on, “It seats 800 and is even used by other area high schools.”
It was one of many examples of the power of working together in a community. The theater was part of a $40 million school bond referendum that Grants Pass used to build a new high school that looks more like a college campus on the grounds of their early 1900s era high school. The non-profit outfitted the theater with state of the art equipment and furnishings.
Grants Pass also raised funds for a new 90 bed, $52 million hospital on the outskirts of town, efficiently consolidating two separate campuses. The city provided infrastructure to and around the site, resulting in tremendous growth in the area. Charlie’s tour took us by dozens of new medical related offices around the new hospital, hosting many of the 138 doctors that call Grants Pass home.
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