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The campaign to build the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts is a nine-year project comprised of three three-year phases, the final phase of which began on August 1, 2006. The campaign’s first three-year phase was committed to planning the project, raising leadership gifts to ensure its early success and appointing renowned architects and specialists to design the Center’s venues.

The second phase was dedicated to designing the venues, increasing funding to 75 percent of the project’s total cost and executing long-term contracts with the City of Dallas affirming ways the Center will be governed, operated, managed, maintained and supported from the time of its opening.

The goals of the campaign’s final three-year phase are to complete construction, raise the remaining funds required to construct the Center and implement the Center’s business plan. Construction is now well under way on the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House and the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, with the first phase of the Center’s underground garage complete. Construction of the Center’s new Annette Strauss Artist Square and Grand Plaza will start in 2008, with the long-anticipated grand opening being planned for the fall of 2009.

To date, all of the primary goals of the campaign’s first two phases have been accomplished; the project is on schedule and on budget; renowned architects have designed remarkable venues to comprise the Center; total funding for the project exceeds $277 million, including 114 gifts of $1 million and above from more than 100 Dallas families and organizations; a multi-generational contract has been executed with the City of Dallas that will help ensure prudent management and quality control of the Center’s future operation; and, a responsible, comprehensive business plan for the Center is in development.