DeYor center to receive $800K for Flad Pavilion

COLUMBUS — State Representatives Robert F. Hagan, D-Youngstown, and Ronald V. Gerberry, D-Austintown, on Friday announced the DeYor Performing Arts Center will receive $800,000 in state support for the Eleanor Beecher Flad Pavilion.

The Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission recently approved the reimbursement to the Youngstown Symphony Society for construction costs associated with the pavilion that opened in 2006.

“I am pleased the commission is supporting this wonderful venue,” Gerberry said. “State dollars for this construction project will allow the symphony society to focus on continuing to provide top quality programs.”

The money to fund the project and others around Ohio was appropriated by the Ohio General Assembly over the past two sessions.

“This is an important program for our quality of life in the Mahoning Valley,” said Hagan. “The symphony provides many hours of wonderful entertainment and enrichment to thousands of area families every year. I’m proud the state is supporting this wonderful institution and the beautiful pavilion they have built.”

The Ford Family Recital Hall and its adjacent Eleanor Beecher Flad Pavilion have a combined area of 24,000 square feet. The theater and pavilion were the final piece of an $11 million project that also included the earlier renovation of Powers Auditorium and construction of its East Wing.