Washington's PACE to Be Renamed Tateuchi Center

Bellevue, Washington's Performing Arts Center Eastside will be changing its name to the Tateuchi Center after receiving a $25 million dollar donation from the Tateuchi Foundation, the New York Times reports today.  The donation will help with the building of the center.

The Times reported that the future performing arts center, which was designed by Norman Pfeiffer, will include a concert hall seating 2000 and a space for cabaret seating 250.  Work on the center is to begin in fall 2011 and is hoped to be finished by 2013. 

The Tateuchi Foundation was created by the late business leader and humanitarian Atsuhiko Tateuchi and his wife Ina Goodwin Tateuchi.  The foundation's website states, "The Atsuhiko & Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation seeks to promote and improve international understanding, knowledge and the quality of relations between Japan and the United States. This will be done through a structured program of contributions and grants for charitable purposes conforming to the guidelines found to the left."

The newly named Tateuchi Center will present nationally and internationally acclaimed music, theatre, and dance to audiences east of Lake Washington. In addition to touring artists, Tateuchi Center will offer a superb Eastside venue to both established, Seattle-based performing arts groups-such as Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Symphony-and emerging Eastside groups that have outgrown their current facilities.  For more information, visit www.tateuchicenter.org.