GoFundMe goal. Erick Casselman, the owner of the Park Theatre, says they’ve lost about 160 shows after having to shut down due to COVID-19 in March.“It really hammered us and took a lot off the plate with us and put us in a tough position,” he said.“I was honestly adamant against it because I was like, ‘We’re a business, I am a business, I have credit cards, I have lines of credit’, so I just kept taking on more debt, more debt.”Casselman says his friend Mat Perlman saw the stress he was enduring and didn’t think the venue would survive over the summer.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]“Twenty thousand dollars honestly will help us limp through July and August and again, it’s hard for me to do this.