STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Quality of Life
AGENDA DATE: January 13, 2021
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): 14
DEPARTMENT: Office of Arts and Culture
EXECUTIVE: Joey Zapata
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SUBJECT
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Authorize the Fourth Amendment to the Lease Agreement with the Dallas Theater Center (DTC), to extend the delivery requirements for the Updated Master Plan, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the theater industry, to the earlier of eighteen months after the DTC has been fully operational or January 1, 2023 - Financing: No cost consideration to the City
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BACKGROUND
In September 1973, the City entered into a lease agreement with the DTC relating to the operation of the Kalita Humphreys Theater Building in William Dean Park. That agreement was first amended on November 17, 1982 (Resolution No. 82-4006) reflecting DTC's option to renew the lease for an additional term of 20 years, thereby, extending the lease to September 26, 2013.
On April 12, 1989, the City passed Ordinance No. 20266, establishing the Office of Cultural Affairs, subsequently renamed the Office of Arts and Culture (OAC) in 2019, and empowering it to perform many of the duties previously performed by the Park and Recreation Board relating to the DTC. The proposed amendment formally transferred administrative responsibility for the DTC lease agreement from the Park and Recreation Board to the OCA and added the City-owned Heldt Office/Rehearsal Building (built with 1982 Bond Funds) to the facilities covered under the lease. Finally, the amendment allowed the City to pay electric utility costs for the facilities covered by the lease.
In 2005, the Kalita was designated as a Dallas Landmark. It is the only theater that Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed, and, in that ordinance, it states that the primary period of significance was the original 1959-1960 design. The City contracted Booziotis & Company Architects to complete a Master Plan using bond f...
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