The article highlights the trajectory of Leonardo Rodríguez, his personal story, immigrant status, and origins as an art collector. Similarly, it outlines the project's beginnings and summarizes some of its most notable successes. Rodríguez mentioned that, in the mid-second decade of the 2000s, he noticed a certain dispersion among local initiatives to promote and exhibit Cuban art and decided to consolidate these efforts by opening an Art Center in a warehouse in the then quite desolate area of Kendall.