Late last month, The Metro Atlanta Arts & Culture Coalition tasked Atlanta's four mayoral frontrunners with outlining a plan, in burnished prose, to strengthen the city's arts programs. The AJC covered Monday's ensuing debate.
What's that? 5,000-odd words and no direct mention of the Atlanta Jazz Festival? The debate did center around arts and artists and visual art-related things, but the word "music" did pop up once. Here's Lisa Borders, the current council president, on creating new venues:
"I would lead the charge to build infrastructure to include performance spaces, museums, historical parks, galleries, artist studios and live/work spaces, arts-focused retail establishments, music and film production studios, dance studios, and crafts workshops, among other improvements. We should access and leverage TAD funding to develop these spaces, create developer incentives using existing tax mechanisms, and repurpose abandoned but convertible facilities in the City, such as the AJC building downtown."
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