By Emma Freer – CommunityImpact.com – Image: Courtesy Baron Wilson.
Image: The master plan details the second and third phases of development for the MACC, which opened in 2007.
Eighteen years after the first master plan was drafted, the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, in Austin, Texas, is on track to expand, fulfilling the community’s original vision for the space. City Council first adopted a resolution pertaining to the creation of the MACC in the late 1980s. The first phase of the building, however, did not open until 2007. In May the Austin Parks and Recreation Department hosted the first of a series of public input meetings meant to direct the next two phases of development for the MACC.
