'Fits, Starts and Painful Bumps for Carnival Center in Miami'

The New York Times ran this article at year's end. I hadn't seen it. Except for the old Sears Tower, I think the center is ugly myself, but I've never been inside it.

MIAMI — In the decades it took to conceive and build the new performing arts center here, one term became something of a mantra among the project’s boosters: world-class.

If Miami ever hoped to elevate itself into the ranks of the world’s great cities, they would say, it had to have a world-class complex for the performing arts.

Now beginning its second year, the $461 million complex, known as the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts, is in administrative upheaval and struggling financially. Its supporters are grappling with the cold truth that if it is going to become a cornerstone of a world-class Miami, both the city and the center have a long way to go. . . .