The other thing I hear a lot about this space is, is this really Council Bluffs?

Do we really have an arts and culture center that's on par with any other World-Class Arts and culture center?

And we do.

This sudden surprise like kind of joy that this is amazing.

So often you have it's a separate building, a separate facility, museums over here.

You have your opera house over there.

And here it's all together.

PACE is Pottawattamie Arts, Culture and Entertainment, and we ultimately are a nonprofit that supports other arts and culture nonprofits, as well as we do our own arts and culture programing throughout the community.

It just sits there.

So don't worry about a little wobble.

For someone who doesn't know what who PACE is, I would.

I would look towards any type of art you enjoy.

The easiest one people can look to is food.

Is only a container of you never know what's in it because you want everybody else to know.

But also in performing arts.

We have galleries.

We're the sum of all creative arts and one spot to empower the community to experience all that where normally maybe they wouldn't.

PACE built the Hoff Family Arts and Culture Center, which is a 95,000 square foot center that's dedicated to the arts.

Welcome to McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Building.

We're actually located in what they call the Implement District.

This district historically was known for farm equipment.

So this space?

Originally, it was a big warehouse built in 1894.

A beautiful building architecture wise and basically it was kind of defunct for many years, like 30 years.

PACE you know, got together with a bunch of partners and and rescued it and turned it into the beautiful space it is today.

It is home to five arts and culture nonprofits PACE, Pottawattamie Arts, Culture, Entertainment, American Midwest Ballet, Chanticleer Community Theater, Kaynesville Symphony Orchestra and Kitchen Council.

So together we support each other's missions.

And together we're better able to thrive and survive.

This is the Anne and John P. Nelson Exhibition and Art Gallery floor, so it's 8500 square feet dedicated to art and exhibition of art.

We try to focus on local artists.

We also have our Grant Wood Mural Collection, as well as our newest exhibit Verge, which is opening tonight by Lee Running.

It's an incredible gift to be able to work in a space like this.

So awesome and so slow.

I came in here and the first thing I thought was maybe someday I could, I could have my work in a space like this.

And to be part of something that feels really vital and alive is incredibly exciting.

We wanted creatives actively making things in the space.

I'm editing video, but I'm programing it from a video wall upstairs to show opening tonight.

There's five artists here on the third floor, and I'm one of them.

It's just great having artists around that we can bounce ideas off of, and that even though we're not doing the same medium, it's all the same process.

It's all a creative process.

So Kitchen Council helps food startups start up.

I do a lot of pop ups down here.

Any time there's events that need help with, you know, I try to be front and center for those things.

The first time that I walked into the studios even before they were fully finished, but when you could really walk in and see the space, you just wanted to run and leap and move, it's just breathtaking.

That's been really incredible to bring everything together under one roof, especially in such a gorgeous space.

I mean, I I love bringing people to the building and showing them around.

And I mean, the space sells itself.

There's nothing nowhere like this, like outside of Kansas City.

Maybe even further that we have all of these things suddenly come together in one spot.

And so I think when people realize that it dawns on them, it's like Christmas, they get a present and they're like, This is this is something special and I want to keep coming back and that's what we've heard.

But it's truly just the hub, and it's not just within these four walls.

Our reach should expand way beyond the brick and mortar of this space.

But this allows for some very strong arts and culture nonprofits to have a home because all of us really didn't have a home before this.

We're all stronger because of it.