MASTER PLAN Flint, Michigan
v FLINT CULTURAL CENTER MASTER PLAN Flint, Michigan Flint Cultural Center Corporation December 2014 Contents 4 Vision 6 Background 12 Planning History and Process 16 Big Idea 1 Promote New and Expanded Programming 26 Big Idea 2 Enhance the Public Realm and Visitor Experience 36 Big Idea 3 Improve Sense of Arrival and Identity 50 Big Idea 4 Connect to Downtown and Colleges & Universities 58 Big Idea 5 Ensure a Safe and Secure Environment 62 Big Idea 6 Create the Flint Arts, Culture, and Education District 66 Implementation Sequence 2 FLINT CULTURAL CENTER MASTER PLAN Flint, Michigan Flint Cultural Center Corporation December 2014 FLINT CULTURAL CENTER MASTER PLAN FLINT CULTURAL CENTER VISION The Flint Cultural Center (FCC) is located The Flint Cultural Center campus provides In 2014, the FCCC initiated an update to on a 30-acre campus, approximately area residents with an array of cultural, the 2003 master plan for the FCC campus three quarters of a mile east of downtown scientific, and artistic experiences, to re-examine the goals of the plan, as well Flint, Michigan. The campus contains five and promotes understanding of the as its recommendations, and to address institutions focused on the arts, music, diverse cultures reflected in the Greater several issues and opportunities that had science, theater, dance, and history: Flint community. The Center is a major emerged: Sloan*Longway (consisting of the Sloan educational resource, and a welcoming and • The opportunity to reconsider the use Museum, Longway Planetarium and the inclusive community center. and integration into the campus of the Buick Automotive Gallery and Research Sarvis Center and Food Services, which Center), The Whiting, Flint Youth Theatre, The Flint Cultural Center is a model for the FCCC acquired in 2014 Flint Institute of Arts, and Flint Institute of how the arts, sciences, and humanities • The opportunity to imagine how the Music.
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