Jamie Malbeuf, CBC
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The Francis Winspear Centre for Music is expecting to break ground on its $54-million expansion project this summer.
The downtown music venue, home to the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, is getting funding from all three levels of government to cover $39 million of the total cost, Winspear CEO Annemarie Petrov said Wednesday.
Funding from the municipal and provincial governments has been secured, and the Winspear is currently "in conversation" with the federal government, Petrov said.
The Winspear is in charge of raising the other $15 million. Right now it is doing that through silent fundraising, and Petrov expects to open up fundraising efforts to the public in the fall.
Petrov has been part of the expansion project since it started about seven years ago.
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