GREEN BAY (NBC 26) — A nonprofit community theater group in Green Bay is planning a move into its first permanent rehearsal and performance space: the former Helen Keller Elementary School in the Green Bay Area Public School District.

In its 40-year history, Evergreen has never had its own permanent space. Show rehearsals are currently held in a warehouse on Morrow Street.

Props, set pieces and costumes are housed across the street in another storage unit.

“We’ve just been all over the place,” said Dawn Byrne, the former Evergreen Theater Board President. “And, it has been a challenge, especially for our volunteers. We want to get everything to one space.”

September 22, the Green Bay school board approved Evergreen’s purchase ofKeller Elementary for $725,000.

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