The BAM Cultural District
March 30th, 2009 | Brooklyn Exchanges
Monday March 30, 7 PM
A roundtable discussion with Katie Dixon (Dowtown Brooklyn Partnership), Ken Smith (Ken Smith Landscape Architects) and Thomas Leeser (Leeser Architecture)
Our guests will discuss the latest architectural projects in the BAM Cultural District, the arts district in the neighborhood surrounding the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The BAM Cultural District’s plans for affordable performance and rehearsal space for non-profit visual, performing, and media arts groups as well as mixed-income housing, and new public open space are currently in various stages of progress and completion. Our guests, who are involved in the current developments, will be able to give an update on what is actually being planned, designed and built and how the current economic crisis is affecting the district and its projects.
Katie Dixon from the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership will give an update on the district as a whole, discussing the development of the master plan over the past several years, followed by special presentations by Thomase Leeser of Leeser Architects, and Ken Smith of Ken Smith Landscape Architects.