Artfully rebuilding in Covington

The national website of Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) has a section called “Our Stories” to share examples of successful community-building efforts from its 30-plus offices across the U.S. The local story featured last week was “Rebuilding, Artfully, in Kentucky” and covered the amazing work LISC Cincinnati has done in Covington in partnership with the Center for Great Neighborhoods.

“More and more, community developers are using arts and culture, so integral to the character and identity of a flourishing place, to catalyze neighborhood renewal,” national writer Alina Tugend says in her introduction. “In Covington, Ky., this kind of creative placemaking has helped brighten and invigorate communities that have struggled with blight, crime and abandonment, particularly the city’s Westside area. Today, Covington has more welcoming public spaces, affordable homes and new businesses than since its 20th-century heyday as the iron fence capital of the world.”

Read the full story on the LISC national website here.