Downtown plan cultural district plan briefing book

the long version

...includes a wide variety of materials relating to development of the city's cultural district in downtown Boston; covers design and development guidelines, zoning information, inventory of existing theaters and performance spaces, comparisons to cultural districts in other cities, descriptions of performing arts organizations which will be using the district, an historic buildings survey, which includes name of architect, architectural features, historic designations, and dates of construction; proposed improvements, cost estimates and potential economic impacts are also discussed; vol. 2 contains a draft report on the Midtown/Cultural District which includes a needs assessment of the arts in Boston, design and development guidelines, implementation issues, the planning process and historic preservation; this section also includes the names of performing arts groups in Boston (dance, opera, theater, music, etc.) with brief background information on each and neighborhood in which it is located; Boston's Opera House grant application to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Civic and Convention Center Program is also reproduced as are community letters of support and newspaper articles; copies of these items were in the BRA collection...