In the fall of 2015, the Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus (THEARC), an 110,000 square foot, state-of-the-art campus located in Ward 8, broke ground for Phase III of its expansion. Last month, the new 92,000 square foot building opened on the west side of the campus. It features a state-of-the-art black box theater, as well as several organizations including the AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation, an early learning public charter school, and The Phillips Collection, an art museum.