Campbelltown Arts Centre has also received $80 million to build a new 350-seat theatre,galleries and workshop spaces and $40 million will be invested in a new Blacktown Arts and Cultural Centre – with its 3000 square metres of theatres,galleries,and public exhibition space – out of monies set aside from the proceeds of the sale of the WestConnex tollway system.
But the government is believed to have made no decision to acquire the privately owned Roxy Theatre to return the Spanish mission-style former cinema palace in Parramatta’s George Street to its former glory.