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Mexican American Cultural Center

CIP 834-867-0600

Summary

The Mexican American Cultural Center is to be dedicated to the preservation, creation, presentation, and promotion of Mexican American cultural arts and heritage. The center will be a tremendous resource for the local community and visiting tourists. Through education and community participation, the center will foster a meaningful understanding and appreciation of Chicano, Native American, and other Latino cultures with their respective artistic expressions. The programs and education curriculum will include the areas of visual art, theater, dance, literature, music, multi-media, and the culinary arts. The MACC will be designed to create a safe and beautiful place for youth, adults, and seniors to spend their time creatively and pleasurably. Ultimately a large 800 seat theater, a small 300 seat theater, an outdoor Plaza, a two story education/exhibit/rehearsal/office building and a two story parking garage will be built.

Issues

To build out the entire site could take $45,000,000. We have $7,500,000 for construction of Phase I.

Description

This is a great undertaking and in order to develop a long-term plan for the development of the site, we are developing a Master Plan to better help us design the first Phase of the MACC. In an effort to receive community input as to what the MACC should be, we held a series of community meetings on July 29th and 30th. A second public workshop was held on September 9th. In those workshops, as we called them, there was tremendous interest from the citizens in developing the connection not only of the MACC to the Hike & Bike Trail, but the further development and improvement of the Hike & Bike Trail in that part of Town Lake. Further more, the development of a trail and a bridge on both sides of Waller Creek was just as important to the community. On October 9, 2000 the consultants presented to the public the design based on the last workshop.

The Master Plan was completed and presented to City Council on December 14, 2000. We are now taking a hard look at what Phase I of construction will be. We are trying to bring it within the construction budget that was estimated for Phase I. More than likely, Phase I will be the design and construction of: an outdoor Plaza to accommodate 2,000 people; a portion of a two story structure to house offices and exhibit space; a multi-purpose building that could seat 300 people for a performance or 150 for a sit down dinner; and some surface parking and landscaping.

This estimate should be complete by February and design of Phase I should start in March 2001.

Basic Data

  • Project Manager: Paul Medrano, AIA, Department of Public Works, 974-7141
  • Designer: CasaBella & Del Campo + Maru, Joint Venture

    Revised February 7, 2001

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