Austin360 blogs > Out & About > Archives > 2009 > January > 28 > Entry
Time for Science & Technology
We’ve got the perfect spot: The state-owned, block-sized surface parking lot at Congress Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, opposite the Bullock Texas History Museum and the Blanton Museum of Art. Perhaps the state could collaborate with private donors and the University of Texas to complement the sweet and graceful, but painfully undersized and inaccessible Texas Memorial Museum (right) by building on this prime and very public location.
In the past couple of years, we’ve visited the reconfigured science museums in New York and San Francisco. Both are huge attractions. In a city like Austin, where a good third of the economy is dependent on technology — and another thick slice on tourism — that we offer no charismatic center for saluting science, engineering, etc. is nigh on scandalous.
Recession? A good time for a public works project.
Permalink | Comments (0) | Post your comment Categories: Business, Charity
Comments
Click here to report comment abuse.