CONCORD MONITOR

SPIFFING UP THE CITY AUDITORIUM WHEN IT’S SHUT IS EASIER, BUT NOT EASY

DECEMBER 2020 - “If you can’t have watchers in the seats you might as well as have workers in the scaffolding. That’s the idea at Concord City Auditorium over the past couple of weeks, where lights have been upgraded, curtains replaced and the gold arch re-gilded in a roughly $80,000 project by the Friends of the Audi, as the auditorium is commonly known, and city staff.

“…The scaffolding goes up then the drapes come down, then city painters reguild the arch above drapes, then (contractor) Port Lighting Systems puts up new drapes, which were ordered earlier this year, then the scaffolding comes down,” said Carol Bagan of the Friends of the Audi...”