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City exploring solutions for creative spaces crisis
The city is looking at a variety of strategies for assisting creative businesses and nonprofit organizations that are increasingly being priced out of theaters and other spaces due to Austin’s fast-rising cost of living. At its Thursday meeting, City Council…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Feb 16, 2018
City looks to retain arts and culture amid growth
A pair of reports from the Cultural Arts Division of the Economic Development Department give city leaders perhaps the clearest road map yet for how to preserve and create artistic and cultural clusters that many worry are threatened by rapid…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Feb 13, 2018
City busking program brings public music performance into question
Austin’s long-debated policy concerning the legality of paid acoustic street performance – widely referred to as “busking” – returned as an issue of some discussion Monday, with the city’s music office attempting to change both the perception and enforcement of…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Feb 7, 2018
Live music proponents revive 'agent of change,' with eye toward fall
After it lay dormant since July, city leaders and music industry professionals are restarting the process that – it is hoped – will protect live music venues and nearby residential buildings from clashing over noise and general quality-of-life issues. Known…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 31, 2018
Land trust and incentives for arts appear headed for Council
The creation of a land trust – a potential first for the city – is one of the tools City Council will consider next month in an attempt to keep artists and musicians from getting priced out of Austin. Council…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 25, 2018
Nonprofits pitching in on cultural land trust proposal
A group of Austin nonprofit organizations are working together on an effort that would see the city of Austin create a cultural land trust to buy and preserve properties around the city for use as theaters, studios, live music venues…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 12, 2018
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Austin fields eight potential sites for new soccer stadium and practice space
City Council is weighing eight potential sites to house a professional soccer stadium and practice space after the Ohio-based Columbus Crew soccer team expressed an interest in moving here. But Council members decided to hold off on a final decision…
Music & Entertainment • By Syeda Hasan • Dec 20, 2017
Unclear regulations and development top music venue concerns
Thursday’s summit with music venue owners and operators saw a bit of political scheduling serendipity. Among the many issues discussed by them and other music community stakeholders was the fact that that afternoon City Council was set to consider a…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Dec 18, 2017
Survey, memo suggest progress on soccer stadium
Tuesday saw two notable developments in the possible move of a Major League Soccer team to Austin, with a downtown park making the cut as a possible site for the team’s stadium. The first happening was the release of the…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Dec 13, 2017
Kitchen to take up city efforts to preserve music, arts venues
Council Member Ann Kitchen has started work on a resolution that will direct city staff to examine ways for the city to step up and help prevent music venues, small community theaters and other creative spaces from being priced out…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Dec 12, 2017
Stadium proposal renews talk of hotel taxes for Expo Center revamp
Travis County officials appear ready to push for some of Austin’s growing pool of Hotel Occupancy Tax money to be used to pay for an ambitious expansion of the Travis County Exposition Center site, which is also where a group…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Dec 11, 2017
MLS team's ambitions cast shadow over Austin's other soccer hopefuls
The possibility of the Major League Soccer club from Columbus, Ohio, relocating to Austin has brought attention to other lower-profile but still ambitious soccer-related projects in the area. And one of the central questions surrounding Columbus Crew ownership group Precourt…
