EEK's job will be to identify complementary uses for a planned 10-acre site that could house the arts center, along with retail, residential, office and educational facilities, according to the arts center board. Houston-based Hines is the project developer, as GlobeSt.com previously reported. Hines assisted the board in its selection of the two architectural firms.
In winning the design contract, Barton Myers beat out Skidmore, Owings & Merrill of Chicago and three New York-based firms--Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Rafael Vinoly Architects and Robert AM Stern. GlobeSt.com reported that competition in October 2005. Terms of the contracts for Barton Myers and EEK were not disclosed. Funding for the project remains incomplete, sources in a position to know and associates of the board tell GlobeSt.com.
As Orlando officials continue to mull the arts center project, neighboring Daytona Beach officials have opened the $29-million, 98,000-sf, three-story News-Journal Center. The arts complex, on Beach Street between Bay and Third streets along the Halifax River, is expected to galvanize ongoing plans for the revitalization and redevelopment of the city's Downtown district, city officials and area marketers tell GlobeSt.com.
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