Now some members of the Tampa Art Museum’s board want to put up a rooftop terrace on the new art museum about to be constructed downtown on the river. The pitch is that it would act as a fund raiser for the museum, hosting weddings, bar mitzvahs and the like, providing an open air facility overlooking the minarets across the Hillsborough River. It sounds romantic, moonlight over Monet and all that ,but the more cynical out there might see it as just a venue for the artsy fartsy set that most of us would never see.
I say build it but, except for a designated number of occasions, open it up, put in a few potted palms and call it a public park.