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Facilities for the arts.One of the most prominent points of feedback across the activities was the desire for <br />a performing arts center or multi-disciplinary arts venue. This is consistent with feedback that was provided <br />for the 2012 Arts Master Plan, showing that it is still a priority for the community. <br />“Stage for music/other performances on the courthouse square.” <br />“Build a venue for music and dancing on the courthouse lawn.” <br /> “Performing arts center is badly needed; along Hopkins near library/activity center or east <br />of 35? That’s an arts wasteland.” <br />“Central public facility for downtown?” <br /> “Build a community arts center for visual/performing arts.” <br />“Black box performing arts center.” <br /> “Shared maker space.” <br /> “Public performance event center \[with a\] stage, film, gallery, community center.” <br />“Community maker space network.” <br />“A multi-purpose arts center.” <br />City planning.Participants submitted ideas that could be considered in the planning of new city programs <br />or development initiatives. <br /> “Develop a sense of culture and civic center on the east/south side of San Marcos across <br />I-35, as it develops. Not just housing.” <br /> “Design walkable ‘trail’ square art district to the river- art connects the city areas.” <br /> “We need a boutique hotel downtown with arts focus to bring in art tourism (don’t make <br />tourists stay in the burbs! (look at Conrad Hotel in NYC, great model).” <br /> “We have numerous craft fairs and a few arts-and-crafts venues but a city of this size with <br />potential for growth needs and deserves a Laguna Gloria Museum and School (Austin), a <br />Dougherty Center (Austin), a SAMFA (San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts), a Lost Pines Art <br />Center (Bastrop), an Inspired Minds Art Center (Buda), OR a thriving Old Town Cultural <br />District as in Lockhart, Johnson City or Fredericksburg.” <br />City management.Participants provided several ideas related to the management of city programs. <br /> “City should offer guided (paid) tours of murals and public art.” <br /> “Establish a full-time city-staffed arts funding department with grant writers to proposal <br />large scale funding opportunities for the city. Six to seven figure proposals from the NEA <br />and NEH.” <br /> “Build the creative network for families and entrepreneurs.” <br /> <br />KEEN INDEPENDENT RESEARCH —SAN MARCOS ARTS MASTER PLAN 2022 APPENDIX D,PAGE 2 <br /> <br />