The City of Temple Terrace Florida approved a 14000 sq ft performing arts center with space for stud

The City of Temple Terrace, Florida, approved a 14,000 sq. ft. performing arts center with space for studios and classrooms as part of the city’s downtown development, reports the Tampa Bay Business Journal. The suburban municipality near Tampa has never had a mixed use, walkable center, but Torti Gallas and Partners designed one in 2004 — partly on former shopping center land. Vlass Temple Terrace LLC, which is building the mixed use downtown development, will pay for most of the $2.48 million arts center, notes the Business Journal. “Temple Terrace city officials will kick in $540,000 to construct three studios, and also will be responsible for purchasing furniture, fixtures and equipment at an estimated cost of $100,000,” says the report. “Other aspects of the conceptual plan reviewed by the city council include the relocation of the Temple Terrace Public Library adjacent to the Center for the Arts. The Temple Terrace Police Department would then move into the current library building on Bullard Parkway, leaving its current location on the third floor of city hall.”