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With Trump-era tax breaks, Krens’ museum-theme park bid now stands to remake North Adams’ downtown; 2,000 spinoff jobs forecast

A sweeping theme-park-for-art vision of a economic and cultural transformation of the Greylock region – 2,000 new jobs and up to $180 million annually added to the economy, and tax-breaks for investors — was detailed for the first time in a public forum on Sunday by art entrepreneur Thomas Krens.

Krens spoke to a full-house audience at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., in the final of four lectures since fall about his career from Williams College professor to head of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and years helping create large-scale museum projects worldwide.

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COMMUNITY: How shall we define? Let us count the ways — nine at TedX North Adams

How many ways can we build community? Sharing water, theater, books, music, food, family, arts education or hip hop and “stepping” dance?   Nine speakers and performers each took 20 minutes on Saturday to describe a form of community.

It was the second-annual TEDx North Adams event held in Studio 10 at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA). Under rules of the national TedX nonprofit, the North Adams effort, in its second year, was limited to only 100 tickets sold, but next year they’ll be authorize to sell more. The Studio B 10 at MassMoCA was organized like a cafe.

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