In Wednesday’s (8/22) Miami Herald, Hannah Sampson reports, “As a forensic engineering company continues to investigate why the roof drainage system failed at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts during a spring storm, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez said in a memo Wednesday that the estimated bill for repairs would be about $3.8 million. A tally of the cost had not previously been released; county commissioners agreed to authorize up to $5 million last month to fix the county-owned center, which opened in 2006. Flooding forced a crowd of nearly 2,500 to flee during a performance of The Lion King in May. The county pays the Performing Arts Center Trust about $7.65 million annually to cover the facility’s operations and has said that the reimbursements for repairs will likely come from that pot of money as well as other tax-collection funds, if needed. … The county and trust are working to have repairs finished by early October, when the performing arts center’s new season starts.” The New World Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra perform regularly at the Arsht Center.
Posted August 24, 2012
