Achieving Cultural Arts District Designation Remains Primary Goal
On February 21st, more than a dozen groups and individuals welcomed the Deputy Director of the Texas Commission on the Arts Jim Bob McMillan as he visited Downtown Rosenberg. Their unified goal: help Downtown Rosenberg achieve a Cultural Arts District Designation.
Several organizations and business leaders including the Central Fort Bend Chamber, CAST Theater, the City of Rosenberg, Fort Bend Art League, Fort Bend County Commissioner’s Court, Fort Bend County Judge Robert Hebert, Hispanic Heritage Forum, Imperial Arts, Lamar Consolidated Independent School District, West Fort Bend Management District, Rosenberg Railroad Museum and merchants of the Historic Downtown Rosenberg Division of the Central Fort Bend Chamber, welcomed Deputy Director McMillan for a site visit in anticipation of the Cultural Arts District Application the steering committee will submit later this spring.
Another Time Soda Fountain owner Renee Butler, Chamber representatives, Rosenberg Councilman Juan Salazar and Kathy Golden of the Art League of Fort Bend took McMillan on a tour of downtown and the surrounding businesses and artist’s studios. A contingent of business leaders had lunch with McMillan and spent much of the day answering questions and visiting local businesses.
A steering committee meets weekly to prepare the district designation application. The committee is comprised of representatives from Another Time Soda Fountain, Brazos River Provisions, CAST, the Central Fort Bend Chamber, Fort Bend Art League, Hispanic Heritage Forum, Red Queen’s Attic, Rosenberg Development Corp. and the Vogelsang Building. The application for the designation must be submitted to the Texas Commission on the Arts by June 1st. The boundaries for the downtown district are from the railroad tracks to Avenue I and from 1st Street to 6th Street.