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Downtown Digest
Economic Vitality
According to Main Street America, Economic Vitality involves taking a proactive, collaborative approach to building and growing a diverse economic base through smart new investment, cultivating a robust ecosystem for small businesses, focusing on the unique assets of your community, and fostering equity and inclusion to create an environment to help build local wealth.
Why Design Matters
In our first blog post, Why Main Street?, I briefly shared the history of our organization, along with the structure provided by Main Street America for revitalization. One of the most obvious, and prominent pillars of the Four-Point Approach is Design.
Why Main Street?
Why Main Street?
I’ll be highlighting those four pillars of Main Street and how they are actively combatting the disease of apathy and decay in our downtown. I’ll also be sharing how you can be a part of our organizations revitalization efforts