Somehow, this community could manage to build a grand new performing arts center yet fail to support and sustain a symphony orchestra founded in 1939. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX Texas SanAntonioArts TobinCenter SanAntonioPhilharmonic
Despite all the glitter of the Tobin, all the recitations of San Antonio being the"seventh largest city" and all the new population and development the city and county have witnessed in recent years, the San Antonio Symphony limped from one financial crisis to another.
City leaders promised that the new museum would attract 400,000 visitors a year. But it was soon evident that without its own collection and funding, not to mention a clear vision or direction, the museum was failing both as a cultural addition and a visitor draw. The city and county governments and Texas A&M-San Antonio made attempts to jumpstart the space. It now sits as the underused, city-owned Centro des Artes gallery.
In the mid-1980s, the city finally got around to demolishing much of the fair's remnants, turning the fairgrounds into a park. Yet only recently has the Hemisfair Park Redevelopment Corp. managed to make the fair site into a truly functional public and private space.
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