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The old Academy of Richmond County building on Telfair Street could be the site for a Georgia Museum of Military History. [MICHAEL HOLAHAN/THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE] without it.” The top floor of the larger synagogue building will serve as a smallerscale event space similar to the larger Sacred Heart Cultural Center, another local rehabilitated house of worship, “and will be set up just like the synagogue was in 1869,” he said. “It’s taken an enormous amount of work from everybody. I’m very proud of what we've done so far,” Weinstein said. Other museum projects are at different stages. A James Brown wing for the Augusta Museum of History, or a wing highlighting several local entertainment personalities, has been discussed at varying levels since at least 2008. Even with its most recent denial of SPLOST funding, the proposed project is unlikely to be abandoned. Thompson is still advocating for a Georgia Museum of Military History. He said in late January that he still is meeting with commissioners to discuss options for advancing that project. “We were of course surprised to hear that our proposal will not be included on SPLOST,” he said. “We were always going to raise funds outside of our stand-up budget, so nothing has changed in regards to our board of directors and current commitments.” District 2 Commissioner Dennis Williams has ‘committed' to help find public funds for the military museum, and District 4 Commissioner Sammie Sias, a retired U.S. Army command sergeant major, has expressed interest after a “very positive phone meeting,” according to Thompson. “We are very optimistic that we can find more partners to collaborate on securing funds for realizing the enormous potential of our proposed museum,” Thompson said. Clarke said he and others are looking into the possibility of using unspent or unclaimed funds from previous completed SPLOST projects to further an Augusta cultural corridor. “That money can be re-designated. So there are a couple of us looking at that, exploring that avenue,” he said. 46 | 1736magazine.com
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