NEW YORK STATE PAVILION, Reimagining a city icon, Tour of the 1964-65 World's Fair complex is part of an effort to find a new use for the towers, ampitheater,: [CITY Edition]

A small group of architects and developers interested in renovating the futuristic New York State Pavilion in Queens toured the complex yesterday with officials from the city Parks Department.

The tour marked the city's first step in an effort to find a new use for the Tent of Tomorrow, which is an outdoor ampitheater, and the towers, both of which have steadily deteriorated since the 1964- 65 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Parks officials will accept letters of interest through Aug. 11, and then evaluate the suggestions and decide whether to issue a more formal request for proposals.

"We'd like to find a way to preserve and possibly adaptively reuse this structure," said Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, "and if we can find a way to do that without spending a lot of the city's...