WATCH: What you should know about Levitt Pavilion, Dayton’s new downtown music venue

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Dayton's new "downtown living room," the Levitt Pavilion music venue site, is planned for a green space named after a former city mayor (and it's officially a go!).

The Levitt Pavilion is scheduled for a 2018 opening in downtown Dayton at Dave Hall Plaza. 

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The state of the art pavilion will be built in Dave Hall Plaza, a park area located on South Main Street between Fourth and Fifth Streets and just west of the Crowne Plaza Dayton hotel. The plaza was dedicated to Mayor Hall in 1971.

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Planners hope to break ground on the plaza, which their website says “will provide a central destination for our community to connect and unwind,” in August.

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Current plans call for the stage, which will have state-of-the-art sound and lighting, to be positioned close to the intersection of Main and Fifth Streets. The artists will face an audience seated in an open lawn setting north of the stage.

The square is flanked by the Dayton Convention Center to the south and the former United Brethren Publishing House, now called the Centre City Building, to the north.

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