{"id":266375,"date":"2013-07-02T17:23:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T22:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=266375"},"modified":"2013-07-03T16:56:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T21:56:48","slug":"mayor-appoints-arts-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=266375","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Appoints Arts Task Force"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"thumb_Barbara-Bass\"<\/a>TYLER — Tyler Mayor Barbara Bass has appointed a task force to make recommendations to the City Council regarding the potential use of parts or all of the S.A. Lindsey Building at Elm and Broadway as an art center. \u201cWe envision this art center serving our art community as well as becoming a tourism destination for the region,\u201d said Bass. The S.A. Lindsey Building was gifted to the City of Tyler in 2010 by the R.W. Fair Foundation and the Fair Estate. It is located at 123 S. Broadway and is currently vacant. The structure has eight floors and more than 50,000 square feet of space. <\/p>\n

The Art Center Task Force will be co-chaired by Don Warren and Beth Whitney. While members are still being appointed, current members include Dana Cargile, Tracy Kenner, Mary Kay Lust, John Musselman, Jim Pendleton and Dr. Aubrey Sharpe. Also, Mike Butler and Jason Jennings from Butler Architectural Group will serve as the consulting architects for the task force. The task force has held its first meeting to discuss the scope of its work and is expected to make recommendations to the Mayor and Council by January of 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very pleased to see this task force begin their work,\u201d added Bass. \u201cVery early in my career, I worked on the sixth floor of the Lindsey Building. It has saddened me to see it sitting empty. To have the opportunity to plan for its new life as an arts center is extremely gratifying.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is anticipated that the primary funding source for the arts center will be private donations. \u201cOur first step would be a complete renovation of the exterior and first two floors of the building, including major infrastructure upgrades in the HVAC, plumbing, electrical and elevator systems. For that work, the initial estimate placed the cost at a little more than $2 million,\u201d said Jason Jennings. \u201cThe building, which is constructed of concrete and steel, is in remarkably good shape and ready to be put back into service.\u201d<\/p>\n

The vision for the project is that at least the first two floors would be a public arts space. The task force will make recommendations about what that might encompass, as well as possible uses for the upper floors. \u201cThis is a very challenging project and I am pleased to be able to have a hand in determining how the Lindsey Building will be used to bolster Tyler\u2019s art community and to attract visitors,\u201d said Task Force Co-Chair Beth Whitney.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe possibilities are endless,\u201d added Co-Chair Don Warren. \u201cThis project could include anything from an art institute, a gallery that could include local and national talent, or classrooms to lofts or rehearsal space. And all this under one roof! It will be an incredible journey to explore all the possibilities.\u201d Local artist and Task Force Member Dana Cargile chimed in, \u201cThis project will create amazing opportunities for local artists to show and sell their art to Tyler’s incoming visitors and residents.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER — Tyler Mayor Barbara Bass has appointed a task force to make recommendations to the City Council regarding the potential use of parts or all of the S.A. Lindsey Building at Elm and Broadway as an art center. \u201cWe envision this art center serving our art community as well as becoming a tourism destination … Continue reading Mayor Appoints Arts Task Force<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 14:02:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266375"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266615,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266375\/revisions\/266615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}