We have purchased four buildings on Box Butte Avenue. Our intent is to remodel these buildings and to help bring back the vitality that our downtown once had.
The State of Nebraska has given historical status to the Newberry building. We intend to listen to the people in Alliance through open houses to ultimately determine what will be included in our historic preservation. We would like to compliment the existing businesses on Box Butte Avenue and create a vibrant downtown…
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The pattern is familiar, large department store opens on the edge of town, mom and pop store closes, and jobs and money flow out of the community. Dennis and Connie want to take the focus from the big box and put it back on Box Butte.
Dennis and Connie McCullah recently sat down to talk about their Rebuild Alliance building project in Alliance, Nebraska. They now own several historic buildings in the downtown they have known their whole lives. The buildings will undergo historic renovations to create shops, homes, and community spaces…
We couldn’t believe what we found behind a cabinet on the second floor of the Newberry building. The artwork, painted free hand by artist Jack Sampson Sr. in the 1930's, is part of a friese depicting “The Life of a Cowboy”. We plan to preserve and include Mr. Sampson’s art work in our historic remodel of the Newberry building.
As Connie stood in the hall in Central School looking at the historic door to Classroom 7, thinking about pan handle art teachers who had to pay for art supplies out of their own pockets, an idea began to emerge to help them obtain supplies for their projects at no cost — this is how Classroom #7 was born…
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“We set up a non-profit that will support the performing arts and media arts so that any money that comes in through that foundation, or generated by buildings owned by the foundation, will actually stay in the community and have that same purpose long after we’re gone. That's part of our give back to the sustainability of the community, ensuring that once this is developed it will stay in Alliance.”
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