MEDFORD, Ore. – The Southern Oregon Historical Society is one step closer to opening a downtown event center thanks to new funding from the Oregon legislature.
During the 2024 legislative session, the legislature awarded a $500 thousand grant to SOHS to go toward development of a new event center.
The event center would be created in the old JCPenney building near the Craterian Theater.
SOHS executive director Ron Kramer says this is a large step toward reaching their funding goal for the space.
“The event center will hold I could say about 350 people,” Kramer said. “It’s a good sized assembly space for downtown Medford. Nothing else kind of like it and we’re excited.”
Kramer says with this funding, they are just a few hundred thousand dollars short of the nearly $1.2 million needed to create the center.
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