Coral Springs Center for the Arts developed from an early 1980s community push for a civic center into a modern performing arts complex with a 1,471-seat theater, the Coral Springs Museum of Art, and training space for stage workshops. Designed by Donald Singer, it featured a space-saving combined gymnasium and auditorium with portable seating serving both functions. Construction took three years and faced bankruptcies, cost overruns, and design cuts, but the building opened in 1989. Strong interest in cultural programming soon shifted its mission, leading to reorganization, major renovations in 1994, and reopening in 1996 under its current name. The museum opened in 1997 and expanded the complex’s role as a community arts center.