According to an announcement from Performing Arts Center Eastside (PACE), their CEO, Ray Cullom resigned before the end of 2019. Ray was hired as CEO in the spring of 2018. He joined the organization with over 20 years of experience in the commercial and not-for-profit arts industry.
The Tateuchi Center is planned to be the Eastside’s home for innovative performing arts programming from around the world. The Center will include two theaters, with one being a 2,000 seat concert hall featuring ballet and symphony performances, and the other being a 225 seat theater featuring jazz, blues and other local performers.
In early 2018, Tateuchi Center’s Board contracted with Arts Consulting Group to conduct an international search for a new CEO. Cullom was chosen out of 39 qualified candidates.
According to the organization’s announcement, “PACE and the greater Eastside community will continue to benefit from Ray having launched our Arts Education Initiative.” The Performing Arts Center will be announcing next steps.
PACE had been slated to open in the fall of 2020. They have not yet broken ground to begin construction.
Wow. It’s not in their Facebook posts (https://www.facebook.com/pg/PerformingArtsCenterEastside/posts/), the last of which is from October. No mention on their Facebook page at all! (https://www.facebook.com/PerformingArtsCenterEastside/), for which the last “Milestone” is from 2016, four years ago!
It’s not on their “News” page (https://pacelive.org/news/)
It’s not on their “Leadership” page (https://pacelive.org/who-we-are/#board), which shows him as “Ex Officio” and on the “Executive Committee.”
No recent news anywhere, no recent developments and this significant news is buried. Are we CERTAIN PACE isn’t just some sort of shady pyramid scheme?
It’s never going to happen now… economy has been booming for a decade and still no money/interest for this one. Time to re-think and maybe open a tech-savvy modern art museum or something.
I really disagree with this comment. Bellevue has been struggling to have a vision of what this center will be and has been distracted by having too many ideas and a lack of understanding of the community’s needs while at the same time a lack of community engagement at the level of attendees of the event space. Transportation to Seattle takes time and effort with a growing challenge in our area and a history of not resolving transportation except for the privileged who have their own work buses provided by their employers. Bellevue needs a performing arts center for a growingly diverse and soon to be an even larger community (15K plus other coming from Amazon) that will meet its needs. Kirkland and Edmonds have better facilities and performances than we do. We can still use a Modern Art Museum here but the Theater should come first.