Atlanta Cultural Groups Halt Fund Raising for Project

Leaders of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and its parent organization, the Woodruff Arts Center, have stalled a fund-raising effort for a new concert hall, reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The $300-million new symphony facility has long needed state and city money to cover one-third of its cost, and the five-year-old fund-raising campaign has raised $114-million, the newspaper reports.

But a central issue yet to be resolved is whether the arts center will be able to obtain air rights atop a public-transit station at the location of the facility, a space in which the new symphony hall would be built. Now the organizations say they may consider moving the new facility.