Since 2003, the town has recorded 95 new business openings, 22 business expansions, 76 building rehabilitations and nearly $3 million in private reinvestment along Main Street. According to town ...

A new program seeks to change the economic development narrative in rural and small-town Main Streets. Main Street America, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, recently ...

How A Rural Mississippi Town Created A New Local Economy To Rebuild Its Main Street Ten years ago, Water Valley, Mississippi had fallen on hard times. Today, there’s a brewery, a restaurant ...

Midway, about 15 minutes south of Winston-Salem, wasn’t even a town for most of its history. The Davidson County community became a municipality in 2006 in an effort to avoid getting annexed ...

Some rural Missouri towns like Oak Grove don’t have control over their main streets because they happen to be state highways. ... The town’s main street intersects with state Route 5.

Museum on Main Street (MoMS) is the Smithsonian’s premier program for small towns. For almost 30 years, MoMS has brought rural communities high-quality museum exhibits in partnership with the ...

The Main Street Investment Fund, created during last fall’s jobs special session, has received $5 million and is accepting applications for small town redevelopment projects. The money will be ...

Kansas Main Street program is a powerful tool for improving vitality in communities. Re-establishing it has been a hallmark of Kelly administration ...

Small-Town Bank CEOs are Cautiously Optimistic, says Rural Mainstreet Index Survey Despite the positive sentiment, local community bankers report concerns about lower commodity prices, the ‘big ...