Linda Warren, president, Village Capital Corp. the market real estate funding wing of Neighborhood Progress, Inc. discussed the progress being made in Cleveland to make W. 65th and Detroit Avenue into an arts district, and

• Capital Theater renovation
• Seven arts related businesses
• W. 78th Street Studios
• Private businesses like Robert Masche Studios, architects developing in the area as well as the Battery Park redevelopment.

And other sites in which NPI and Village Capital Corp. are investing:

University Circle arts and transit village

Neighborhood Connections funded Pop Up City for temporary uses project including a day-long charrette with German designers. Some places grant $1 million for arts programs. Bottom line issue for funders, how will you get repaid? The Bush brothers at W. 78th Street Studios have figured it out. A lot of cultivating and realizing that you won't be able to reproduce the success of Waterloo in every neighborhood. Jeremy said, figure out how to be profitable without profit maximizing.

Mark Folk, director, arts commission of Greater Toledo

They started an arts meet-and-greet, a guerilla gallery hop, that attracts a few thousand people.

Host web sites for artists and offer a peer-to-peer network. "There's a gap in education for artists as far as making a living at their art." The site also has a centralized ticketing system for performing arts venues.