Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city of 496,000 has a thriving cultural center that includes the Seattle Art Museum's Modern Art Pavilion, the symphony and a repertory theater that counts 25,000 subscribers. The opera company, nearly as good as it is bold, puts on the complete Wagnerian Ring cycle in German and English every summer. In a burst of civic pride, voters last month approved a $19 million bond issue to build a second theater, a rehearsal wing for the opera and symphony and another art center that will house the Tutankhamun exhibition of Egyptian art in 1978. Now about...
...Blight. Seattle has rebuilt half of its city center since 1970 and renovated two previously downtrodden downtown districts, turning them into fashionable areas for restaurants, boutiques and offices...
...driving force and idea man behind the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, a turning point in the city's development. Not only did the $100 million bash turn a profit of $500,000, but it endowed the city with many permanent buildings, including the Cultural Center and the Space Needle, a spidery, 607-ft. structure that is Seattle's Eiffel Tower...
With all this, more is coming. Jim Ellis has proposed a plan for the Puget Sound area all the way from Vancouver, 143 miles to the north, to Olympia, 60 miles south. He envisions public financing of open spaces around urban centers, state aid to restore housing in the cities and lure back still more suburbanites, and the strengthening of downtown Seattle as the area's commercial center. Says Ellis, exuding the optimism of the frontier, "American communities can be places of beauty, civility and fulfillment - but they happen only when people make them happen...
...assess the impact of the front, TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof visited Bradford, a sooty Yorkshire mill town that once was known as "the wool center of the world." Bradford is typical of declining industrial cities with a growing race problem, and pro-front sentiment is strong. Amfitheatrofs report...