Local and state officials put aside their differences and broke ground for a park that will house the ancient Miami Circle downtown.
The future is now for the three Miami museums that will transform downtown's bayfront Bicentennial Park from vacuous public space to community cultural campus by 2013.
Architectural designs and construction plans are in the works; contracts with public agencies are under negotiation, and private donations are being raised to match the public dollars that will share the costs for two new buildings to house Miami Art Museum on the waterfront and Miami Science Museum and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida next door on Biscayne Boulevard.
Envisioned as the complement to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts that will form downtown's cultural anchor, the Museum Park Plan is the most ambitious public-private partnership for the arts since the $483 million performing arts center, which was completed in 2006.
The backers of a planned new sculpture park are banking on just that.
A roughly three-acre park with a rotating display of sculptures from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries -- many from museums and private art collections -- is scheduled to open on the sands of North Beach by 2011.
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