Detroit has been in the headlines during this campaign season with former President Donald Trump recently

recently comparing the city to a developing nation, but Detroit is increasingly known for its creativity,

and one couple is using the arts

to turn around an entire neighborhood.

Special correspondent Megan Thompson

visited Little Village to see its big plans.

It's part of our Arts and culture series, Canvas.

We have McLellan and Kirchova, a famous intersection.

There was a bank right here.

Dolores Orr has lived for more than 70 years in the East Village neighborhood of Detroit.

We had the drugstore on the corner, then right here, the bakery, Bluebird Bakery,

that baked all the best bread in the world.

I can't even tell you how much of a change I've seen.

I've seen it rise and I've seen it fall.

So Orr, who helps lead the local neighborhood association,

was thrilled when she was approached about a big idea.

The creation of a new arts district here called Little Village.

It would start with converting an empty church into an art gallery. I was excited that it's going to be

up and running again and it's something new to me because I haven't visited a lot of

art galleries. We wanted to include exhibitions, projects, performance.

Anthony Curis, a real estate developer, first became a gallery owner in 2012

when he co-founded the Library Street Collective with his wife

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