The show will go on at New Tampa Performing Arts Center
Hillsborough Commission approves $7.3 million construction on a long-planned 350-seat theater.
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A conceptual drawing, by FleischmaGarcia Architecture, of the proposed New Tampa Performing Arts Center on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard across from the main entrance to Hunter s Green. Wednesday, Hillsborough commissioners voted 5-2, for a $7.3 million construction contract to build the center. [ Hillsborough County ]
TAMPA â The show must go on, a Hillsborough Commission majority decided Wednesday.
In a 5-2 vote, the commission awarded a $7.3 million construction contract for a 20,000-square-foot performing arts center in New Tampa, a project first proposed in 2004.
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.