Tag Archives: Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center
Thursday, August 20, 2020 by Jo Clifton
City Hall
Audit highlights inefficiencies at cultural centers
Inefficient operations and a lack of strategic direction have threatened the city’s ability to provide for an increase in cultural opportunities for city residents, according to an extensive audit unveiled by the Office of the City Auditor during the City…
Monday, August 10, 2020 by Chad Swiatecki
Entertainment & Events
Latino groups ask Music Commission to support creation of Latino music fund
A new coalition is pushing the Music Commission to support allocating some of the city’s funds for live music to Latino musicians. Members of the Latin Music Coalition Austin spoke at last week’s meeting of the Music Commission to highlight…
Thursday, September 19, 2019 by Chad Swiatecki
Planning
Arts Commission eyes MACC-Palm School link in supporting city’s push for preservation
The Austin Arts Commission has signed on in support of the city’s goal of preserving the Palm School property as a historic cultural facility, in a nod to the ongoing negotiations with Travis County for ownership of the downtown site.…
Thursday, May 10, 2018 by Chad Swiatecki
Bonds & Propositions
Arts, culture groups joining forces for bond request likely to exceed $100M
Representatives from the city’s three ethnic cultural centers will join forces with members of the Arts and Music commissions to ask City Council for a bond package request that could add up to more than $120 million. At Monday’s meeting,…
Monday, May 7, 2018 by Austin Monitor
Reporters' Notebook
Reporter’s Notebook: Better luck next time
Best-laid plans… A pair of music festivals set to take place within six days of each other were felled by permitting problems, with one forced to reschedule until September and another planning a move into Austin nightclubs. The Punk In…
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 by Jessi Devenyns
Bonds & Propositions
Parks board talks MACC design, and cost
Recently, the advisory board for the the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center wrote a letter to City Council asking to be allocated the full project cost – $40 million – instead of the $15 million that was recently recommended…
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 by Chad Swiatecki
Bonds & Propositions
MACC seeks full expansion cost – up to $40M – in fall bond election
The advisory board for the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center will ask members of City Council to more than double the $15 million that was recently recommended to be provided to the center from an expected fall bond…
Thursday, March 1, 2018 by Chad Swiatecki
City Hall
City pauses arts program amid protests, possible MACC opt-out
The city has paused a program intended to create much-needed venue space for local arts groups amid controversy and concern over how it would mesh with cultural groups that operate out of city cultural centers. Laura Esparza, manager of museums…
Monday, February 12, 2018 by Chad Swiatecki
Austin
Board, public debate may slow approval of MACC master plan
City and community leaders hope to move forward with a spring approval of a new master plan for the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center despite a frequently contentious meeting of the center’s advisory board last week marked by…
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 by Chad Swiatecki
Parks
Dispute continues over program to expand artists’ access to cultural centers
There appears to be little progress in a dispute between a group of Austin arts organizations who claim they’ve been mistreated and marginalized by the city’s Parks and Recreation Department in its work to expand operating hours and access at…
Friday, January 12, 2018 by Caleb Pritchard
City Hall
Parks department mired in drama over cultural center access program
The Mexican American Cultural Center Advisory Board voted Wednesday night to ask for the indefinite suspension of a new program that would keep the city’s various cultural arts centers open in the late-night hours. The move came after three performance…
Friday, July 7, 2017 by Chad Swiatecki
Development
Boulevard eyed as solution to Rainey Street traffic
A major revamp of the Rainey Street neighborhood is one of the options in front of business and community leaders looking to solve an anticipated spike in traffic over the next decade. Members of the advisory board for the Emma…
Friday, June 23, 2017 by Chad Swiatecki
Development
New master plan to pave the way for MACC expansion
Few could have imagined when the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center was originally proposed in the late 1990s that the area around the center would look anything like it does in 2017. When the MACC was completed in…
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 by Audrey McGlinchy
Austin
Mayor sees collective effort in revitalizing east downtown
Just before the new year, Mayor Steve Adler wrote a lengthy post on the City Council Message Board, titled: “Possible solution to downtown puzzle.” He later said it wasn’t so much a puzzle, but that there were a lot of…
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 by Audrey McGlinchy
Austin
Future of 64 Rainey remains unknown
The future use of a small city-owned plot of land butting up against the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center is no closer to being known. Members of City Council’s Open Space, Environment and Sustainability Committee heard from neighbors…
Thursday, October 30, 2014 by Tyler Whitson
Development
Parks Board says ‘no thanks’ to Rainey house
The Parks and Recreation Board voted Tuesday to recommend that City Council “politely decline” the donation of a small historic house for use as the Rainey Street History Center. The vote came after the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican-American Cultural Center…
