Revitalize this!

摘要

An urban art trail and interactive outdoor museum is one of those seemingly "noncritical" stimulus projects that caused a lot of fretting last year. When word got out that almost half of the $8.8 million project would be funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), detractors complained the money would be better spent on "traditional" improvements like road resurfacing.rnBut it's not difficult to understand why the New York State DOT chose to commit $3.4 million of its $34 million ARRA allocation into the project. ArtWalk 2 is the continuation of a neighborhood revitaliza-tion, completed eight years ago, that's credited with driving up the value of homes in the area.