The public/private partnership plan with Brooklyn-based United Management calls for:
- The city to donate 1.7 acres in downtown to United Management, which is doing business in the city as Sunshine Lake Worth Development. The property, valued by the city at about $3.3 million, is at the southwest corner of Lake Avenue and South M Street.
- Sunshine Development would build a four-story museum to display its 15,000 pieces of decorative glass and ceramic artwork. Along with the cafe, bookstore and classrooms, an exhibit by Dale Chihuly is planned.
- Sunshine Development would build a 110-unit apartment complex to include eight affordable artist lofts. A nearby three-story parking garage would have about 270 spaces. The garage would be owned and operated by the city. Parking for the public would be allowed.
- An “active alley,” a pedestrian-only landscaped walkway between the museum and parking garage, would be built.
- Four historic buildings now on the property would be moved to nearby Lake Worth Beach Community Redevelopment Agency-owned property.
- The 33,000-square foot Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts would house the ceramic and glass art collected by Arthur Weiner, an attorney, real estate developer and art collector.
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