Can Dallas finally save Frank Lloyd Wright's long neglected Kalita Humphreys Theater? After rejecting a $300 million master plan, the city plans to spend $7.63 ...
Despite the objections, the plan had much to recommend it, in particular the restoration of the Kalita back to its 1959 glory, albeit with a few improvements to bring it up to contemporary standards. Over the years, the theater had been the victim of a series of ill-conceived alterations, among them the addition, in 1968, of a rehearsal space plopped indecorously above Wright’s lobby. That space would now return to its original function as a roof terrace.
So at least some of the added building was a response to those instructions. Adding new theater space was imperative, as the directive entailed the removal of the 1968 addition to the Kalita and the demolition of the Heldt Building, a dilapidated, ugly and non-ADA compliant support structure that compromises views of the Frank Lloyd Wright building.“It is a property that is owned and managed by different people,” says Ann Abernathy of the Kalita Humphreys Theater at Turtle Creek Conservancy.
In addition to the spending on the Kalita, the budget would put $975,000 toward repair of the universally reviled Heldt Building — the very definition of throwing good money after bad. Unconscionably, even with all that money spent, there still would not be even a temporary connection to the adjacent Katy Trail.
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