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A long video detailed on the Grand Opening of The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. An event center with two huge theatres. Located in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA, at 16th and Broadway near the Power & Light District, the Sprint Center and the Crossroads Arts District. It is part of the ongoing redevelopment of downtown Kansas City. The Center was created as a non-profit organization. Unlike some other major civic construction projects, no taxpayer funds have gone into its construction. The City of Kansas City, however, has built and will operate a parking garage at the Center. It will be performance home to the Kansas City Symphony, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and the Kansas City Ballet which in the past performed eight blocks north of the center at the Lyric Theatre (Kansas City, Missouri) The Center itself is an approximately 285000 square foot (26500 m2) facility with two sophisticated performance venues: the 1800-seat proscenium-style Muriel Kauffman Theatre and 1600-seat concert Helzberg Hall. The Kauffman Center covers 13 acres (53000 m2), including landscaped grounds over a 1000-space underground parking garage. The technical requirements and exacting standards required of a facility like the Kauffman Center make it one of the most complex structures in the world to design and build. The cost of the project was approximately 3 million, including a million operating endowment. DesignersThe Kauffman Center was designed by lead architect ...