Follow Along with the Powell Hall Expansion and Renovation

December 30, 2024

The first of many millwork finishes have been installed in the Jack C. Taylor Music Center. New lockers have been added to musicians’ dressing rooms, bringing the backstage expansion of the project one step closer to completion.

The lockers in new musicians’ dressing rooms are some of the first finishes installed at the SLSO’s renovated and expanded home.

The new dressing rooms address a glaring inequity in Powell Hall—the lack of dressing spaces for women or gender neutral spaces. Powell Hall, designed as a movie theater and built in the 1920s, previously had only one dressing room, used by men. With the renovation of Powell Hall (and a 64,000-square-foot expansion together making the Jack C. Taylor Music Center), the dressing rooms were relocated from the basement into new backstage area, providing equal space for men and women, plus a flex space if the gender balance of the orchestra changes.

The building is scheduled to open in September 2025.