{"id":185204,"date":"2026-02-19T22:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/185204\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:43:08","slug":"orange-county-music-dance-no-longer-breaking-ground-at-great-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/185204\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Music &#038; Dance No Longer Breaking Ground at Great Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orange County Music &amp; Dance\u00a0(OCMD)\u00a0will no longer\u00a0be moving its headquarters to the Great Park.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The board of directors\u00a0have voted to\u00a0relocate\u00a0the organization, which includes the Pacific Symphony home base,\u00a0to a newly identified location in Irvine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit said it was redirecting efforts and resources to another\u00a0Irvine\u00a0site \u201cthat better fulfills the organization\u2019s mission and vision for the future.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OCMD cited rising construction material and labor expenses for the change, as well as\u00a0unforeseen delays and challenges in securing temporary facilities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new location will allow OCMD to build a state-of-the-art facility without incurring any debt and allow us to launch expanded programs in the Fall of 2026 rather than having to wait 18-24 months\u00a0for construction to be completed,\u201d Executive Vice Chair Doug Freeman said in a statement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OCMD will announce\u00a0the location\u00a0in the next several weeks.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County Music &amp; Dance\u00a0(OCMD)\u00a0will no longer\u00a0be moving its headquarters to the Great Park.\u00a0\u00a0 The board of directors\u00a0have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,12416],"class_list":{"0":"post-185204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-free-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}