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Payne believes that the city’s new initiatives are luring
both newcomers as well as old-timers. “It’s a different
city than it was seven years ago, and a lot of people
are wanting to come back here – people who grew up
here and moved away. Young people are really excit-
ed. We have three colleges and a community college.
We’ve got Brescia University, a Catholic school; we’ve
got Kentucky Wesleyan; and we’ve got a campus of
Western Kentucky University, here. And we’re going to
do everything we can to keep them here.”
In the end, Payne emphasizes the necessary prescrip-
tion for any city’s successful regeneration – not only
Owensboro. It’s having a vision, taking risks, selling
the vision, and forming the partnerships that ultimate-
ly get things done. “You have to have a vision and you
have to be able to sell it to people,” he says. “But we’ve
been successful because of our partnerships – with
the public, with the business people - bold leader-
ship on the part of the elected officials, but also the
community stepping up to form partnerships to make
these things happen.”
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