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Town Lake Park Events CenterCIP # 4980-827-6000SummaryIn November 1998, Austin voters approved two bond election items for work in the Town Lake Park area. One was to allow the City to lease and convert Palmer Auditorium into the new Long Performing Arts Center and the other was to create the new Palmer Events Center. This new Palmer Events Center is intended to accommodate some of the events that are displaced by the conversion of Palmer Auditorium and removal of the Coliseum. Once the new Palmer Events Center is completed in 2002, the private sector, non profit group, Arts Center Stage will assume control of Palmer Auditorium for conversion into the Long Performing Arts Center.
StatusBid Package 1, providing for the removal of the Riverside Center building at 901 W. Riverside Dr., was substantially completed July 6th 2000. Bid Package 2 construction includes relocation of some existing utilities and placement of new as well as the placement of 376 drilled piers that will become the foundation for the new Palmer Events Center and Parking Facility. Bid Package 2 is anticipated to be substantially complete by November 13th, 2000. Bid Package 3 opened bids October 12, 2000. This work includes construction of the new Palmer Events Center and Parking Facility and is expected to start on November 13, 2000. The Parking facility is anticipated to be open by November 2001, and the Palmer Events Center by the end of May 2002. Two additional construction contracts are expected for award during 2001. These include the access roads to the new Palmer Events Center and Parking Facility as well as the first Landscaping contract for the area around both the Events Center and Parking Facility.IssuesMaintaining construction progress and schedule.DescriptionGuided by the general public, stakeholders and a Park Master Planning process, the new Palmer Events Center was placed in the park. The new Events Center will be approximately 130,000 SF and have a 70,000 SF exhibit area capable of subdivision into two simultaneous events. The facility will have two major entrances to serve each simultaneous event. One from the north off Riverside Dr. and the other from the south off Barton Springs Rd. The new Community Events Center is a smaller events type of facility that caters to local public events that are not large enough to be accommodated at the existing Convention Center. In addition there will be a series of meeting rooms of approximately 7000 SF used by smaller groups for their group purposes.A 1200 automobile parking facility will be constructed for this site within the same time frame as the new Events Center. The parking facility will be an elongated structure curving along the south side of Palmer Auditorium from the east and terminating into the new Events Center over where Bouldin Ave currently sits. Entrances to the new garage will be on both ends. The western end access will be from Barton Springs Rd. and the eastern entrance will be off Riverside Dr. This new parking facility will also serve as screening to the service yards of both the new Events Center and the converted Palmer Auditorium. The parking demand for the two facilities is in excess of the 1200 spaces to be provided in the garage and consequently the City has obligated portions of the One Texas Center and Town Lake Center garages for after hours use to meet the facilities parking needs. This project also will provide for the removal of the City Coliseum after the new Events Center is completed in 2002. Basic DataRevised October 20, 2000 Back to the October 2000 Contents |
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