In Paducah, Artists Create Something From Nothing

by NOAH ADAMS
August 09, 2013

How do you fix a neighborhood? What do you do about crime and drugs and the once-lovely old houses that are falling down? The answer in Paducah, Ky., was to turn it into a special place for artists to live, work and sell. Read more, http://www.npr.org/2013/08/09/210130790/in-paducah-artists-create-something-from-nothing?sc=ipad&f=1001

Steve Doolittle, a Paducah city planner, is pleased that new money is coming to Lowertown. Much of it not related to the arts.

"It is now a neighborhood where local people are happy to invest," he says. "We've seen some of the most expensive housing in Paducah has now been built in this neighborhood. That would not have happened but for the Artists Relocation."