The Hannibal Arts Council is hoping to make a home closer to the downtown artisan community.

Michael Gaines the Executive Director of the Council says the facility here on the Market Street Wedge has served the organization well in past years.

But it has got its problems.

Stairs into galleries and into the facility itself make accessibility difficult.

Now the council is looking at making the former "Other Place Bar" on South Main Street its future home...which will expand the space for galleries and provide a room for meetings.

Gaines said, "We've kind of out grown the building and we see the exciting things going on in downtown Hannibal and we'd like to be a part of it for further development and a location on South Main Street would provide another anchor and bring South Main Street into the picture."

Right now the Council is in the process of applying for tax credits from the state.  If approved, donors to the renovation of the building would get a fifty percent tax credit on their federal income tax.

Gaines says without tax credit status, the hope of moving downtown will have to be put on hold.