On any given weekend, Westwego visitors and residents can grab a coffee and meander through art galleries, or take a walking history tour. They may stroll along the levee, sit down for a barbecue dinner, then catch a play at the theater. They might find a festival at the Westwego Fisheries & Farmers market, or they could work on a Mardi Gras throw at a craft shop.
It’s all in one five-block stretch of the former fishing village’s historic downtown, an area that officials and artists say is gaining momentum after decades of quiet…