The Authentic, Engaging and Social Main Street

THE PLACE WHERE COMMERCIAL, CIVIC AND RESIDENTIAL LIVES CONVERGE. 

Downtown’s focus is main street; the street with the commercial, office and public activities and uses. Downtowns also provide places for people to live in apartments, condominiums, nearby single-family neighborhoods and hotels. Every element is essential. Many main streets have a significant central park or waterfront. 

Successful downtowns are magical places. They are places where commercial business is conducted in an office or on a street corner. They are where community leaders confab over breakfast or lunch at the same table year after year. They are the places where business owners and residents meet with local government folks, elected and appointed. They are places where children learn the history and the workings of their hometown. They are places where people live. No other place in town has so many engagements, confrontations and happenings as a vibrant downtown.