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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #346 |
| Miami Performing Arts Center |
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| Requester: |
Michael C. Hardy |
Organization: |
Miami-Dade County Performing Arts Center Project |
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| Project Title: |
Miami Performing Arts Center |
Date Submitted |
1/11/2006 3:41:52 PM |
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| Sponsors: |
Margolis |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| Miami is one of the most culturally diverse and exciting cities in the world. More than half of its residents were born in other nations, and many of them live in neighborhoods where their native languages, cuisines and customs flourish and enrich those of their adopted city. In the past two decades, the number of Miami-based cultural organizations has exploded from a few hundred to more than 1,400, and hte city's reputation as a cultural crossroads has become widely known. Miami's existing performance spaces and venues are unable to accomodate this dramatic growth of cultural organizations. Visionary leaders within local arts organizations and hte Miami-Dade County Commission, realizing that the arts are essential to the quality of life of any great urban area, developed a plan to create a major Performaing Arts Center that would transform Miami into a truly cosmopolitan city. |
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| Recipient: |
Miami Performing Arts Center |
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Contact: |
Bill Johnson/ Teresa Hebert |
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1444 Biscayne Blvd., Suite 202 |
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Contact Phone: |
(305) 357-5825 |
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Miami 33132 |
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Contact email: |
hebert@miamidade.gov |
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| Counties: |
Dade |
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| Gov't Entity: |
Yes |
Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
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| Project Description: |
| When completed, teh Miami Performing Arts Center witll include two of hte most technologically advanced performance spaces in the United States and will bring the finest local, national and international performances to the heart of downtown Miami. State construction funds are critically important to ensure that the high technological and architectural standards established for this multiple hall performing arts complex are met. The 2,400 seat Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House and the 2,200 seat Carnival Symphony Hall will be the first permanent homes for four of the region's leading performing arts organizations- Concert ASsociation of Florida, FLorida Grand Opera, Miami City Ballet and New World Symphony. 57,000-square foot Plaza for the Arts willbe ideal for outdoor performances and community festivals.
The Center is designed as a complex of "purpose built" performance halls along the lines of the Lincoln Center model. Each space is being built to provide local, state, national and international artists and cultural organizations with a regional state of the art facility that is acoustically superb and fully eqquiped. The Miami Performing Arts Center will be the only complex of "purpose built" halls in Florida and one of America's most important new international centers for the performing arts. Architecturally and artistically, the Center will establish new standards for cultural excellence and artistic diversity. When fully operational, the Center will serve approximately 617,000 patrons per year, including 150,000 schoolchildren. |
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| Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| A completed Performing Arts Center by fall 2006 |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$2,500,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$90,000,000 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Construction |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
Local, Private |
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Cash Amount |
$90,000,000 |
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| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
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Yes |
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Fiscal Year: |
2005-2006 |
Amount: |
$500,000 |
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| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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Yes |
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Amount: |
$2,500,000 |
To Fund: |
Operations, Construction |
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| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
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Yes |
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Agency |
State, Department Of |
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| Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? |
No |
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| Is there a documented need for this project? |
No |
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| Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? |
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Yes |
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Hearing Body: |
Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners |
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Hearing Meeting Date: |
11/15/2005 |
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| Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida? |
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No |
