This EDA investment supports the shakespeare center of LOS angeles, INC

The Economic Development Administration awarded a $6.25 million project grant to the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, Inc. under the Economic Adjustment Assistance program. The funding will support renovating and equipping a warehouse used as an entertainment workforce training facility with a soundstage. Renovations will create a state-of-the-art space for real-world training in various entertainment industry positions. The project aims to expand a paid workforce training program and support economic resiliency in Los Angeles County by creating higher-skill, higher-paying jobs. Once completed in April 2027, the upgraded facility will accommodate additional height, rigging, lighting/audio-visual systems, and fire/life safety components to provide industry-standard training activities in one of the region's major creative industry clusters.

With renovating and equipping a warehouse used as an entertainment workforce training facility with soundstage to expand a paid workforce training program in LOS angeles, california. Renovations will result in a state-of-the-art workforce training space that provides additional height needed to provide real world training activities, a grid to provide hanging capacity, a lighting and AV system, fire alarm and sprinkler fire/life safety systems, appropriate exit pathways and variable room acoustics. A major industry cluster in LOS angeles county is the creative industries and the center will provide training and job placement in a variety of entertainment industry positions with growth momentum. Once completed, the project will support economic conditions that will lead to the creation of more higher skill employment opportunities and higher paying jobs, which will advance economic resiliency and strengthen the regional economy.