On Thursday, June 13 at 11 a.m., Cityof Lawrenceville officials celebrated the groundbreaking of a $31 million arts facility in downtown which will be located directly across the street from the Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse. Local officials from the city, county and state were present to commemorate the start of construction for this new 56,000 square-foot performing arts center, which will become the expanded home of Aurora Theatre.
The expanded space will house a 500-seat theater, cabaret, indoor and outdoor civic space and rooms for educational programming. It will be managed by the second largest professional theater company in Georgia and Gwinnett’s only professional theater, Aurora Theatre.