Author: Deleted author
Title: Catalyst
Category: Community Revitalization
Description: Once dubbed by Rolling Stones as “the best music scene” of the country, Station North has had its fair share of ups and downs throughout history. From the age of the streetcars that roamed North Ave. to the de-industrialization that plagued its Greenmount West area with abandoned warehouses and empty lots, Station North has kept its grit. However, in 2000, more than half of Station North was vacant.
How do you resurrect a neighborhood and its people from a 25-year decline? It takes more than just one building. Yet, one building will have spin-offs, and through continuous, determined and strategic development, architects, community developers and the people knit together the pieces of their neighborhood, once torn apart.
City Arts I and II, as well as other developments were the catalysts for this change. The example of City arts I and II shows us, as Charlie Duff, Jubilee’s president puts it, that “if you do the right thing, and keep working at it, you can get the next folks to do the right thing. And eventually you got enough right things that you don’t need to worry too much about it.”
“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.” Aeschylus
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