The Hoover City Council in April redirected $6.1 million originally allocated for a performing arts center to fund urgent repairs to the city’s sewer system, casting doubt on how the long-delayed project will move forward.
The council had voted in March 2023 to borrow $93 million and spend $17 million of that on a performing arts center.
At the time, the city was negotiating with the owner of the Patton Creek shopping center about putting the center in renovated space there, but that deal fell apart. A subsequent proposal to place the center in the second phase of Stadium Trace Village also failed when negotiations between the developer and the city broke down over the size of an incentive package…