orchestras, has struggled financially in recent years-announced it might leave Boettcher and search for another home unless the city lowered the orchestra’s annual $323,000 rent. How should DPAC be fixed? The debate began in earnest last year, when the Colorado Symphony-which, like many U.S. This group envisioned a world-class performing arts center that would entice more suburbanites to visit the city and bring life back to downtown. So why not take the existing buildings, add a concert hall, a theater complex, and a parking garage, and tie it all together with a barrel-vaulted glass roof? That was the proposal from a group of visionary political and cultural leaders, including then Denver Post publisher Donald Seawall and former Mayor William McNichols Jr. The Denver Symphony Orchestra, which performed in a converted Beaux-Arts auditorium first used for the 1908 Democratic National Convention, still attracted crowds, as did the city’s American Basketball Association team, the Denver Rockets, who played next door at the Auditorium Arena. On most nights, downtown streets were all but deserted. Downtown Denver in the early 1970s was down on its heels, suffering from the aftereffects of urban renewal and losing office workers to the growing suburbs-the same scenario then playing out in cities across the country.
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