Most towns are awash in politics when it comes to revitalizing business and arts.  For the most part, Tucson isn’t much better.  Recently and article in the Arizona Daily Star showed $77 million (that’s million folks) spent on PLANNING to revitalize the downtown.  Okay, they have two nice theaters out of the deal, but really?  $77 million.  Anyway, some folks in the private sector have banded together to form a revitalization all their own.  Fletcher J. McCusker, CEO of Providence Service Corporation (no I don’t know what that is) has thrown his financial support behind a grassroots effort to take arts back downtown without all the back door wrangling that usually goes on.  This Saturday, the whole 6th Avenue block between Congress and Pennington will be shut down for a block party.  That’s right, they managed to get a whole block of the downtown civic area shut down for the evening and it’s not even a holiday!

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