City awards space to Historic Englewood

Organization will have to allow public access to view parts of its collection

BY ELISABETH SLAY ESLAY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

e Englewood City Council approved an agreement awarding a cultural arts space for Historic Englewood in a regular meeting on July 24.

According to city documents, the space was developed in partnership with the Englewood Environmental Foundation, which owns the Englewood Civic Center, and the Museum of Outdoor Arts (MOA), which formerly had a gallery in the secondoor space inside the civic center at 1000 Englewood Parkway.

“As MOA no longer needed an indoor location, the city wanted to continue to utilize a portion of this space for nonpro t organizations,” documents say.

e agreement allows Historic Englewood, the brand of the Englewood Historic Preservation Society, to use a portion of the open gallery space and large storage area for collections.

“Congrats to Historic Englewood, you have a new space,” District 4

“provide the contractual space to Historic Englewood at no cost and will contribute a grant not to exceed $50,000 which may be used for improvements to the space, indoor and outdoor signage, grant writing, consulting, archiving, presentation equipment and displays, web development and other start-up costs,” documents read.

Additionally, Historic Englewood agrees to open the space for people

Historic Englewood has been using storage space not open to the public in the Englewood Library for the past several years.

According to Matt Crabtree, president of Historic Englewood, the organization is looking forward to utilizing the space.

“We’re excited at the opportunity to create a unique historic museum,” Crabtree said.

He said that for the next six