Hillsborough considers premier of New Tampa Performing Arts Center
Seventeen years later, commissioners are still questioning the financing of a planned 350-seat theater.
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A conceptual drawing, by FleischmanGarcia Architecture, of the proposed New Tampa Performing Arts Center on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard across from the main entrance to Hunter s Green. [ Hillsborough County ]
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NEW TAMPA â Hillsborough Commissioner Ken Hagan said he thought it would be a unanimous vote â a slam dunk.
He told fellow commissioners about a proposal to use county-owned land for a performing arts center in New Tampa. But Haganâs counterparts wondered about a financial commitment from the city of Tampa, since the site was inside the city limits, and the possibility of perpetual government subsidies.