03/17/2025
This is an artist's rendering of what the Ro-Na might look like if all the finances are sufficient. The Friends of Ironton have been working on this project for nearly 20 years. We are a volunteer group, and nobody gets paid to work in this building. We are always looking for people who want to volunteer time as there will always be a need for event set up and take down, cleaning bathrooms, taking out trash, dusting, cleaning windows and all the other tasks of operating a building like this.
The board of directors for the Friends of Ironton expects the above renovations to be completed in late 2025 or early 2026.
Once the property is completed we plan on hiring a manager and staff to operate this facility on a daily basis. We appreciate all the support for this project. It has taken a long time to get here and the total investment is going to be nearly $5 million dollars over the past nearly 20 years.
The people involved with the Friends of Ironton took on this project because no one else would. Instead of seeing the building get leveled and made into a parking lot - we stood up and accepted the challenge. This project was and is, a gift to our community. We don’t have access to large sums of money if an event were to lose money. Maybe we were conservative with the amount of events we hosted in the past - but we always paid our bills on time.
We look forward to inviting the community into the Ro-Na after this next round of renovations are completed. We are optimistic that this building will be a self sustaining property. Hopefully the community will support it enough to make be just that
