Wyoming Arts Council

City of Casper leases vacant downtown warehouse to Casper Artists’ Guild

Featured News | March 21, 2014

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More creative placemaking in Casper.

“Artists need to be encouraged, and they need financial support,” said Casper City Councilman Dan Sandoval after the city approved leasing the old downtown Pacific Fruit & Produce Company warehouse to the Casper Artists’ Guild.

The guild will buy half of the building (17,000 square feet) for $200,000 by the end of the year, according to Holly Turner, the guild’s executive director. Meanwhile, CAG will have time to renovate the warehouse’s second floor and move in to what members are calling Art 321.

The guild has plans for a gift shop selling members’ art, a large exhibition space and studios where the public can watch artists at work. The renovated space could serve as one of the anchors for the downtown art walk.

The city is looking at a buyer for the other half of the building, a 10,000-square-foot space. Turner told the Casper Star-Tribune that she hopes the other tenant will be “a restaurant, a brew pub, a coffee house, all those things are being talked about.”

She said that the guild has raised $420,000 and will need another $200,000 for the project.

For more information, contact the guild at 307-265-2655.

Home page photo: Photo of Holly Turner  in Warehouse at 321 Midwest Avenue, by  Elysia Conner, Casper Journal

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