A consortium of civic leaders and others led by John D. Rockefeller III built Lincoln Center as part of the Lincoln Square Renewal Project during Robert Moses's program of urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s. Respected architects were contacted to design the major buildings on the site, and over the next thirty years the previously blighted area around Lincoln Center became a new cultural hub.

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