Make it Memorable on Main Street! Shop . Dine . Tour . Enjoy!
Tools & Strategies
Looking for great ideas and solutions? Delve into the Mount Airy Main Street Resource Center and explore our comprehensive digital library containing a broad range of member resources, including the Main Street America Main Street Approach handbooks and guides, newly released revitalization tool-kits, and much more.
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Main Street Approach Handbooks and Guides
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RESOURCE CENTER
Original Main Street Approach Handbooks
Board Members Handbook . Design Committee Handbook . Economic Restructuring Handbook
Organization Committee Handbook . Promotion Committee Handbook . Marketing an Image for Main Street
Main Street Revitalization Toolkits/Handbooks
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Main Street Approach Toolkit ~ Notes
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The Main Street Approach: A Comprehensive Guide to Community Transformation
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Community Engagement for Main Street Transformation
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Fundraising Toolkit ~ Notes
Volunteer Toolkit ~ Notes
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Community Engagement for Main Street Transformation
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View timed presentation, "A New Era of Opportunity for Main Street," by Tom Fiddler,
MacKenzie Retail by Clicking Below. Download the Slide Show as a PDF.
A New Era of Opportunity for Main Streets
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Updated Handbooks/Guides
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Main Street America - Market Analysis for Community Transformation: A Practitioner’s Guide
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The Future of Retail: Creative Approaches to Place-Based Entrepreneurship
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Community Engagement for Main Street Transformation
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Measuring Impact for Main Street Transformation: A Practitioner’s Guide
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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Role of Commercial Districts
MAIN STREET AMERICA VIDEO SERIES - Find Featured Videos and More on MSA YouTube Channel
Check out this series of videos on the power of Main Street’s potential: to revive local economies, bring communities together, and forge the future for cities and towns across the country. We encourage you to share!
Main Street America ...
Main Street empowers communities to set their own destinies. Across the country, thousands of communities have used the Main Street Approach to set transform their economies, leverage local leadership, and improve overall quality of life.
The Main Street Approach™ offers community-based revitalization initiatives with a practical, adaptable framework for downtown transformation that is easily tailored to local conditions. The Main Street Approach helps communities get started with revitalization, and grows with them over time.
Since 1980, Main Street America programs have generated over $74 billion in reinvestment, 138,000 net new businesses, 614,000 net new jobs and 276,000 building rehabilitations. Learn why Main Streets are often a community’s single biggest competitive advantage.
The Main Street America Network helps to breathe new life into the places people call home. Learn more about this powerful movement of organizations, individuals, volunteers, and local leaders making a difference in small towns, mid-sized cities and urban areas across the country.
Grass Roots Network ... The reason that Main Street is so successful is because of the local leaders on the ground. The Main Street America Network is comprised of some of the most enthusiastic, passionate, committed people you'll ever find. Learn more about this nationwide movement of community changemakers.
UrbanMain, a new program of the National Main Street Center, offers a new set of community-driven economic development services to help under-resourced older and historic neighborhood commercial districts restore economic vitality and promote quality of life.
How Story Saved the Nation's Main Street by Mary Means. (with a group of storytellers). Much of the success in launching and sustaining Main Street has been due to story, and that storytelling has been central to my career.
~ Mary Means, Mary Means
& Associates
(Mary was one of the founders
of the Main Street America project over 40 years ago.)