Main Street/Downtown Program Links Added to Blog Sidebar

We recently added links to the Main Street and downtown revitalization organizations and programs for northeast and midatlantic states to the blog sidebar (right hand side; scroll down to view). "Main Street" refers to a program piloted by Building Conservation program adjunct professor and friend Norman Mintz in Corning, New York, and subsequently adopted by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It is essentially a community-based, grass-roots, downtown revitalization strategy based on the four key points of Design, Organizing, Promotion, and Economic Restructuring. We will be following the Main Street approach in our spring Preservation Design Studio, when we will focus on improvements to the upper Congress Street corridor.

For additional information about the Main Street program, visit the National Trust Main Street Center or any of the statewide or city sites we have added to the sidebar.