As hurdles reduce the size of performance fees and reward successful active management, they are popular with investors.

The new $30 million 236,000-square-foot building, which will include truck bays and offices, is almost double the size of Performance Food's current operation on Taylor Street.

With Willard White's massive, resonantly spoken (if rhythmically uncertain) Moor, the slight mismatch of scale between the size of performance and the chamber-dimension of the production is all to the good.

Designed by van Heyningen and Haward Architects, the building was upgraded to meet the needs of varying types and size of performance as well as many alternative uses such as teaching, conferences and exhibitions.