Shoreline Arts Alliance Won’t Bring Cultural Center To Madison

MADISON, CT – The Guilford-based Shoreline Arts Alliance will no longer be working with the town of Madison.

According to a report in The New Haven Register, the alliance told the Board of Selectmen late last week of their decision.

The alliance had been working with the town over the last three years to turn the old Academy Elementary School into an arts center for the community.

Earlier this month, the Madison Board of Selectmen voted to extend it's letter of intent with the Shoreline Arts Alliance from July 1 by another 60 days in order to allow both sides to continue negotiations on a possible lease agreement, The Madison Source reported.

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The SAA and the town have had differing views regarding the structure of a potential lease and financing of the project. The Madison Source previously reported that some developers were starting to eye the parcel and expressed interest in the land.

The New Haven Register reports that the SAA stated in its withdrawal letter to the board that the town’s terms for a lease changed from what it initially presented and “depleting” the alliances resources.

Read the full story in The New Haven Register here.

View the alliance’s website here.

Written by Lisa Gentes-Hunt