Foundation Planned for New Arts Center

Supporters of a Huntington Beach Municipal Arts Center plan to set up a nonprofit foundation to raise more than $300,000 to complete the facility, said the city’s cultural affairs supervisor, Naida Osline.

The City Council voted $758,000 last year to buy an 11,000-square-foot, former Southern California Edison building at 538 Main St. and last week voted another $14,700 for a design to be done by Thirtieth Street Architects Inc. of Newport Beach.

The estimated $300,000 needed to rehabilitate the building to include a 4,500-square-foot art gallery, a multipurpose room, studio or classrooms and offices will be raised by the foundation, Olsine said.

When renovation is completed in January, 1991, the city is expected to vote money for staff members, administration and programming, with the foundation also providing programming money.