First look: Design plans for Boca Raton’s Center for Arts and Innovation

The first designs for the Boca Raton Center for Arts and Innovation, an arts-oriented destination planned for the city’s burgeoning downtown, were revealed Friday.

The center is in the “very early stages” of the design process, said Antoine Chaaya, the partner in charge of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, during an unveiling of the design at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.

The project is slated to begin construction at the end of 2025 or early 2026 at the north end of Mizner Park in downtown Boca Raton, and open in 2029 — so long as it meets its fundraising threshold.

The ultimate goal of the design is to create a “collision of activity,” said Joshua Dachs, the project’s theatre and spatial planner.