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February 27, 2003
McCaw Hall gets $2.75M boost
SEATTLE -- Seattle Center Foundation yesterday announced it received $2.75 million in new major gifts for the Marion Oliver McCaw Hall capital campaign.
New gifts of $1 million each have been received from the Neukom family and an anonymous donor, in addition to new gifts of $250,000 each from the Forest Foundation, the Bagley Wright Fund, and William T. and Gail Weyerhaeuser.
For almost three years, Seattle Center Foundation has raised more than $63.5 million of its $72 million goal. The remaining $8.5 million is needed before the June 28 opening of the facility.
Seattle Center Foundation is leading the fundraising campaign in partnership with Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Opera.
McCaw Hall replaces the old Seattle Center Opera House, a 74-year-old structure that was too small to accommodate modern backstage performance needs, technically inadequate and seismically unstable.