Long-awaited Plano ISD fine arts center takes shape

PLANO, TX – For years, Plano students and artists have turned to neighboring cities to host their bigger productions because their own city lacked a venue of sufficient size.

All that will change with the opening of the new Plano ISD Fine Arts Center.

The $67.5 million facility is a dream several decades in the making, PISD Fine Arts Director Kathy Kuddes said.

“In the last 25 years,” Kuddes said, “there have been several conversations about locations and a facility that would meet this need, either built by the city or in a partnership with the district or in a partnership with several cities, … and none of them have come to fruition.”

The 85,000 square-foot building along Alma Drive is engineered to support each facet of the district’s fine arts programs. The main theater is designed to hold 1,700 people. Other unique spaces include an art gallery, a dance rehearsal space and a studio theater, Kuddes said.