Earlier this week the Official Hip Hop Hall of Fame + Museum to the World announced that they won its bid to acquire a major Harlem building and development site that will be home to the Hip Hop Hall Of Fame Headquarters. The Hip Hop Hall of Fame is Chartered non-profit 501 (c)3 Museum and Educational Institution whose mission is to "preserve, archive, exhibit, educate, and showcase hip-hop music & culture from around the world."
This is a huge milestone for hip-hop as its grown to become arguably the most popular genre of music today. Phase one of the site is set to open in 2018 as explained in the official press release:
The HHHOF development team anticipates completing the building acquisition process over the next few months, and is making pre-development preparations to move right into the redesigning of the building's exterior and interior infrastructure in the 'phase I' plan set to open in February 2018. 'The preliminary plan includes a ground floor themed HHHOF café, gallery, visitors bureau, and retail gift store with a second floor HHHOF museum, event space, offices, and multi-media studio for film and television content production in partnership with the HHHOF Arts & Media Youth Academy students that will be training for careers in tech and media, while producing real-life content for the museum, and the hip hop television channel network', stated JT Thompson the Creator and Executive Producer of the first ever Hip Hop Hall of Fame Awards TV show that aired on BET Network in the 1990s, and Founder of the Hip Hop Hall of Fame + Museum.
