Founded in 1976, the Arkansas Repertory Theatre is the state’s largest non-profit professional theater company. This 385-seat theater is housed in a three-story 1900s general retail building, a challenging rehabilitation project. The theater includes an experimental 99-seat black box theater on the upper floors, with the lobby doubling as an art gallery. Exterior work included glazed brick repair, replacement of missing sections of the cornice, and storefront and upper floor window replacement and repair. The project has won both state and regional AIA Design Awards.