Arts Commission wants convention center installations preserved ahead of demolition - Austin Monitor

"All city projects require a minimum of five to 10 percent contingency budget with the construction budget for the convention center set. At $1.6 billion, there is a minimum of $80 million to $160 million set aside for contingency expenses such as saving a significant cultural asset and the work of public art from, and the work public art from destruction."

"The impact on the contingency budget would be negligible and it would avert a tragic destruction of a major work of public art that has been valued in the city's collection for 30 years."

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