Added to the overall design of the proposed school, the center will serve as the central facility for theater, musical and community performances. The current venue, located at the Brewer Middle School, will become unavailable once the school is closed.

The high school does not have such a center, nor is there one in the community. While the designs do allow for the completion of the proposed school itself if voters elect not to fund the center, some costs of the base project may increase since exterior walls would have to be constructed where the building would have been extended.

The addition of the performing arts center will be funded locally, but there are several reasons to include it as part of the larger project now, instead of waiting until the future:

1. The construction crew is already there. The economy gained by having the same construction crew and equipment build it at the same time cannot be realized if the center is built as a separate project in the future.

2. Escalation/inflation – The materials, labor and overall costs of construction will rise through the normal effects of inflation.

It makes sense to build the center now, even at the cost that will be borne by Brewer residents.