NORWAY — Selectmen will hold a special meeting Monday night to discuss with the architect the latest plans for the Norway Opera House project.

Denis Lachman, principal of Lachman Architects and Planners of Portland, will update the board and others on the Norway Opera House project at 7 p.m. Jan. 30 in the Norway Town Office.

“We will report on what we’re going to do, when we’re going to do it and how we’re going to pay for it,” Town Manager David Holt said Thursday.

The town is working with the Norway Opera House Corp. to use historic tax credits in partnership with Norway Savings Bank to renovate the first-floor storefronts using a $400,000 Communities for Maine’s Future Grant that was received last fall. The work, which is expected to go out to bid in the spring, will include refurbishing the basement area, wiring and plumbing and bringing the basement and ground floor of the building up to code.

Selectmen decided last week to keep the upper part of the clock tower but the ownership of the Opera House is expected to be transferred to the Norway Opera House Corp. or some other entity in the near future.

Holt said the former Woodman’s Sporting Goods store, a 1930s log-cabin style building attached to the Opera House, would not be part of any deal to keep the clock tower. Its future has not been announced.

In 2010, special town meeting voters authorized selectmen to take the Opera House property by eminent domain after a portion of the roof on the historic downtown building collapsed on Sept. 21, 2007, severing a sprinkler pipe, which flooded first-floor occupied spaces in the building and compromised its stability.

The town has since stabilized the back wall, which showed signs of collapsing.

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