{"id":30443,"date":"2025-11-06T06:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30443\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T06:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:25:09","slug":"wareham-hall-breaks-ground-on-40-million-renovation-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30443\/","title":{"rendered":"Wareham Hall breaks ground on $40 million renovation project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; Manhattan\u2019s historic opera house broke ground Wednesday on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wibw.com\/2025\/09\/19\/40-million-renovations-revealed-iconic-manhattan-building\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wibw.com\/2025\/09\/19\/40-million-renovations-revealed-iconic-manhattan-building\/\">$40 million project<\/a> to revive the venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wareham Opera House has stood in Downtown Manhattan since 1880. Now the performance space is set to embark on another chapter as \u201cWareham Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Wareham Hall development group says the building will be perfect to host all sorts of performing arts once renovations are complete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe are trying to set the stage for connection, inspiration and growth through the arts,\u201d Wareham Hall Marketing Director Ashley Fuhrman said. \u201cIn today\u2019s day and age, it seems like arts and entertainment are the great unifier. It brings people together regardless of your background, socioeconomic status, belief system. When you\u2019re shoulder to shoulder with someone enjoying a performance, that is just joyful, and brings together everyone for the right reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wareham Hall should be fully renovated and ready to go late next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; Manhattan\u2019s historic opera house broke ground Wednesday on a $40 million project to revive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[18642,18640,75,84,83,9,24,63,18639,18638,6338,18641,18636,18637],"class_list":{"0":"post-30443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-groundbreaking","9":"tag-hall","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-manhattan-headlines","12":"tag-manhattan-news","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-opera","17":"tag-opera-hall","18":"tag-renovations","19":"tag-wareham","20":"tag-wareham-hall","21":"tag-wareham-opera-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}