A plaza in search of a new identity - San Jose

On opening night for the Mexican Heritage Plaza, hundreds of tuxedos and evening gowns toasted the arts palace with salted margaritas and Corona beers stuffed with tiny slices of lime. The tuxes and gowns left happy and proud, and never came back. At least not enough to get the would-be Lincoln Center of Latino Arts to break even after nine years of political struggle, ever-changing ideas, restructuring and new financial models - all to no avail.

Now City Hall has taken back the keys, and the politicos and bureaucrats are trying to figure out what to do with the building in the heart of East San Jose. And now I’m choosing Cinco de Mayo to ask anyone who cares about the plaza to dream a little and go public with what you’d do with the plaza if you had total control.”*

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