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Article: Boca artists' guild on the move again: Group vacates gallery in Mizner Park as rent pressure rises.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2006
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Byline: Ivette M. Yee
Nov. 5--The Artists' Guild of the Boca Raton Museum of Art has closed its gallery in Mizner Park. An Italian men's wear store will take it place. It's the second time in two years the guild has had to move.
The Artists' Guild, a nonprofit organization, had remained in the gallery paying a discounted rent under a short-term lease, until another retailer willing to pay a higher rent wanted to move in.
Those terms also caused a previous move within Mizner Park, the restaurant and shopping hub in Boca Raton.
So now, along with about half a dozen other local arts groups, the guild is eyeing a permanent space at the ...