{"id":1120,"date":"2008-01-31T00:34:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T08:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2008\/01\/for_another_30_million_you_get\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T00:34:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T08:34:57","slug":"for_another_30_million_you_get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/for_another_30_million_you_get.php","title":{"rendered":"For another $30 million, you get cupholders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re fond of tracking multi-hundred-million civic structures (and who isn&#8217;t?), your eyes would be fixed on Texas and New Jersey, where the money is flowing like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hKoB0MHVBvM\">Mentos and Diet Coke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidelive.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/ent\/stories\/DN-artscenter_0130gl.ART.State.Edition1.44ede93.html\">bumped its fundraising goal<\/a> from $275 million to $338 million. The <a href=\"http:\/\/stadium.dallascowboys.com\/\">Dallas Cowboys new stadium<\/a> is pricing in at $1 billion. And the Giants-Jets stadium development at Meadowlands in New Jersey is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&#038;sid=avW8sKJYxwyM\">likely to cost $1.3 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the sports stadiums are more gargantuan, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts is a story with more nuance (at least for this blog). The new goal and  enhanced facilities plan grew from a simple discovery &#8212; that they could afford to build what they already had in mind. Says President and CEO Bill Lively:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n&#8221;When we realized that we would achieve the original $275 million,&#8221; he said, &#8221;we were ready to make a recommendation for the board to increase the goal to build more stuff.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Might the new goal include more endowment to cover the more-than-likely-higher-than-expected operating expenses for all this new stuff and the stuff already in the plan? Of course not. Such money will be raised more aggressively in 2009, says the article. For now, the focus is &#8221;more stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re fond of tracking multi-hundred-million civic structures (and who isn&#8217;t?), your eyes would be fixed on Texas and New Jersey, where the money is flowing like Mentos and Diet Coke. The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts just bumped its fundraising goal from $275 million to $338 million. The Dallas Cowboys new stadium is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}