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Ambitious (But Failed) New Orleans Arts Center To Be Sold

ISSUES Posted: December 2, 2013 8:28 am

“Once built, it was supposed to become an instant Crescent City tourist attraction. But there was a costly redesign required to preserve an existing historic building and then the usual spate of construction complications. Then came Hurricane Katrina, and later, a national economic downturn. But those troubles were surmountable. The real trouble was intrinsic; ArtWorks, like Marie Antoinette, was doomed by grandiosity.”

ISSUES Published: 11.29.13, New Orleans Times-Picayune

Read the story in Published: 11.29.13, New Orleans Times-Picayune

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