CONNECTICUT COMMISSION ON CULTURE & TOURISM AWARDS $2000 GRANT FOR STORRS CENTER VIDEO
Author: LeylandAlliance LLC and Mansfield Downtown Partnership, Inc.
06/02/2006
Storrs, Conn. (June 2, 2006) - The Mansfield Downtown Partnership in joint partnership with the University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts, the Town of Mansfield, the Mansfield Historical Society, the Windham Region and Tolland County Chambers of Commerce, and LeylandAlliance, LLC has been awarded a $2000 grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism to produce a video CD that will document and promote the new Storrs Center downtown development and the Town of Mansfield. Storrs Center will be a mixed-use town center with shops, restaurants, offices, residences and a town square that offers benefits to the Mansfield and regional community as well as creating a “Main Street” for the University.
The objective of the video is to create an archive of the development of Storrs Center and serve as an educational piece telling the story of the project and the town that can be downloaded from associated websites such as the Town/Partnership website. The video will provide details of Storrs Center together with a look at historic and public venues in Mansfield. It will include interviews with key community, governmental, university and project leaders. LeylandAlliance, the master developer for the project, will be providing matching funds for the grant.
The Mansfield Downtown Partnership will administer and coordinate the project and the School of Fine Arts film students will work with LeylandAlliance to produce the video CD. The Town of Mansfield, the Mansfield Historical Society, and the two chambers of commerce will provide material including historic photographs, demographic and statistical information, and information on historic and cultural resources in the Town of Mansfield. Filming is expected to begin in July 2006. The finished CD should be available within about a year at which point it will be placed on the Town/Partnership, University, and LeylandAlliance websites.
“The grant for the Storrs Center video project gives us an exciting opportunity to document the story of this unique development, says Mansfield Downtown Partnership Executive Director, Cynthia van Zelm. We are looking forward to working with the fine arts students from the University and our other partners and hope that the project will be an inspiration and model for similar developments around the country.”
This is the second grant received from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism by the Mansfield Downtown Partnership. Last year they, along with the University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts, were awarded a grant to create a brochure advertising two weekend packages in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary of the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts.
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