{"id":13228,"date":"2024-03-03T23:02:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T23:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13228"},"modified":"2024-04-22T23:08:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T23:08:20","slug":"raising-union-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/03\/03\/raising-union-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Union Station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2024\/02\/billionaire-todd-graves-donate-carlos-diniz-illustrations-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Billionaire Todd Graves Hopes to Use Art to Fuel Infrastructure Improvements<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Graves plans to display and then donate a group of Carlos Diniz drawings depicting the 1988 renovation of D.C.&#8217;s Union Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/author\/alexandra-tremayne-pengelly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/Union-Station-Wash-DC-Main-Hall-1.jpg?quality=80\" alt=\"Black and white sketch of bustling train station\" class=\"wp-image-1403599\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The drawings were made by architectural illustrator Carlos Diniz.\u00a0Family of Carlos Diniz\/Carlos Diniz Archive<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/person\/todd-graves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Todd Graves<\/a>, founder of the Raising Cane\u2019s restaurant franchise, is hoping an art exhibition will help spur on the long-awaited renovation of Union Station in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A proposed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/transportation\/2022\/11\/13\/dc-union-station-redevelopment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$10 billion redevelopment<\/a>\u00a0would be the train station\u2019s first major facelift in more than three decades. With an upcoming display of illustrations detailing its last major renovation in the 1980s, Graves hopes to remind the city of the station\u2019s potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently on display at Raising Cane\u2019s Union Station location, the six drawings were made by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/person\/carlos-diniz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carlos Diniz<\/a>, one of the most iconic architectural illustrators of the 20th century. Graves, who acquired a dozen of Diniz\u2019s illustrations of the station for around $200,000, will donate the entire batch to a yet-to-be-announced museum in Washington, D.C., later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2024\/02\/billionaire-todd-graves-donate-carlos-diniz-illustrations-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Observer Billionaire Todd Graves Hopes to Use Art to Fuel Infrastructure Improvements Graves plans to display and then donate a group of Carlos Diniz drawings depicting the 1988 renovation of D.C.&#8217;s Union Station. By\u00a0Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly Todd Graves, founder of the Raising Cane\u2019s restaurant franchise, is hoping an art exhibition will help spur on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}