Description

Locating sites for a new art museum, opera house, and symphony hall and developing a City arts policy.

"The Dallas Arts Facilities Plan, in 1977, was the first major project of Carr, Lynch Associates. The City and nine sponsoring arts institutions initiated the effort to meet the pressing need, that a number of them felt, to relocate to new quarters. Dallas was eager to elevate its cultural standing by helping these institutions to grow and support related commercial development. Carr, Lynch was able to expand the study to include multicultural and rising arts groups throughout the city, and arts education. The plan initiated a policy of public support for the arts, implemented by a municipal arts agency. It included a concept and location for a downtown arts district, now the largest in the country, including a high school for the arts."

Fair Park: "The Arts Facilities plan included a redesign of Fair Park, a 400-acre park incorporating arts facilities, several museums, a music hall, the Cotton Bowl, a small amusement park, an outdoor theater and space to accommodate the annual Texas State Fair. The proposed amusement park gave way to parking, but the rest of the plan was implemented, over time, around the existing facilities."

Related archival collection at City of Dallas Municipal Archives: https://dallascityhall.com/government/citysecretary/archives/Pages/Archives_1996-008.aspx