Middle Core Facilities and Areas
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Bill and Camille Cosby
Performing Arts Center
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A 1,500 seat performing arts center to bring in culturally
diverse art forms (classical to contemporary theater, music, dance, and visual
arts, exhibitions, and galleries. Programmatically, this center would offer
training and education in the arts for the residents and the local community.
This will be a big revenue generating facility. We expect to generate about
$900,000 per year on this facility.
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Oprah Winfrey
Butterfly Center |
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A very unique educational and entertaining facility that
will house live butterflies in their natural habitat complete with flowers,
gardens, water falls and hummingbirds. This enclosed structure will have a
myriad of species of both natural and foreign butterflies and hummingbirds. It
will be a state of the science breeding center for butterflies, hummingbirds,
and their supporting plant life. It will be open to the public seven days a
week from 10 am to 6 pm. The students along with professional staff will
operate this facility. It will provide immeasurable educational and hands on
learning events for the students and visitors. It will be a revenue generating
facility with gross revenues estimated at $600,000 per year.
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The Shaquille O’Neal
Athletic Complex
This facility will house community/public, football,
baseball, and basketball leagues, tennis courts, and in-house physical
education and recreational use by the ORACLE scholars, staff and
visitors. It will be the focal point of most sport related recreational
activities. Revenue generation is negligible.
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Sports Complex |
Food Bank/Commissary
The Food Bank/Commissary will stock foodstuff both can goods and
fresh fruits, vegetables, and meats. It will stock fresh produce that will be
raised on the many farms in the community along with produce and foodstuffs
shipped. It will supply most of the daily food needs of the community
residents and will be utilized as a food bank for the needy and less fortunate
in the surrounding community. It will also be used as a facility to train
students in management, retail sales, marketing, and other areas of trade and
business. We expect to generate moderate revenues of about $550,000 per year
in gross sales.
Chief Powhatan Catfish Farm
We will utilize over 100 acres for the development of commercial
farm raised catfish farming. This is a very lucrative venture that will be
used to generate revenue, provide training for the students, jobs for
residents of the community and surrounding area. We will develop five ponds
and special breeding areas for the production of a prime catfish that will be
hearty to this area and will be selectively bred to have to have a superb
taste and maximum protein content.
We will bring in world-renowned catfish expert, Mr. Paige Montgomery of
Grambling State University. He developed a premier program at the university
for catfish farming and the associated technologies of breeding, testing
husbandry, hybrid genetic and commercial production schemes that are very cost
effective and efficient. We estimate a sale of about 30 tons of catfish per
year with gross revenues of about $300,000 per year.
