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Join us on January 27th, as we visit legislators from across the state to showcase the achievements by Missouri communities participating in the Missouri Main Street statewide revitalization program. Help us celebrate the people in our communities who are proud to call Missouri home, work hard to preserve its history, and revitalize their commercial districts. Please RSVP to Janie@MoMainStreet.org
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What could a 60/40 matching grant do for your historic commercial district? Any Missouri community interested in assistance to establish a Main Street
organization or Downtown Revitalization program should attend this workshop.
Only 7 grant awards will be available in 2020. Don't let this opportunity pass you by. All potential applicants must attend one Community Empowerment Grant Workshop. The grant workshop will explain the Main Street philosophy of revitalization and demonstrate the grant application criteria, materials, and process.
This workshop is FREE, but RSVP is required.
There is an optional Lunch & Learn ($15 fee for box lunch) with an experienced Main Street representative sharing success stories.
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Activation Storefront Grant Winners
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MMSC selected two winning applications for the Activation of Storefront Grant recognizing projects planned out by communities to enhance their districts. Congratulations to Downtown Marceline and Warrenton Downtown Association!
View the press releases below for each of the winning communities.
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A Vernacular Creative Economy: Meaningful & Sustainable Enterprises
Rooted In Local Cultures, Assets, and Skills
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March 13, 2020 | Branson, MO
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Vernacular creativity is distinctive activities, products, and ways of working that are rooted in local cultures. This kind of activity creates important innovations that ultimately improve lives and regional economies. Engaging and lifting up distinctive local cultures, skills, and natural resources generates traditional and new products and services of value to people in that place, and beyond. Creative economic activities are more sustainable and build more distinctive places. From his work in communities across the United States, Dr. Tom Borrup illustrates eight different approaches that communities have employed to tap local creativity and culture for community livelihoods and to build a vernacular creative economy.
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MMSC Featured On Main Street America Blog
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MMSC had the opportunity to take Missouri Executive Directors and other community representatives on the Iowa Community Expedition in November. These community leaders visited five different communities in Iowa and learned valuable lessons at each stop. The five communities were Ottumwa, Oskaloosa, Downtown Des Moines East Village, Valley Junction, and Centerville. MMSC was ecstatic that the red carpet was rolled out and overwhelmed by the royal treatment! #MainStreetOnTheRoad
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Join us at Missouri’s Premier Downtown Revitalization Conference.
Places Reimagined
will transform the way we think, engage, and invest in place.
Places Reimagined
will inspire local leaders and stakeholders to evaluate the role of place in today’s economy while creating and engaging people-centered communities.
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MMSC Adds Two New Team Members
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Staci Cox has joined MMSC as the Executive Assistant of Network Services. She has been an active volunteer for the Get Plugged In… Downtown Missouri’s Premier Revitalization Conference since 2013. Staci has a B.S. in Historic Preservation and a B.A. in History from Southeast Missouri State. She also has a Master’s Degree in Public History with an emphasis in Historic Preservation. Her interests include genealogy, architecture, reading, exploring downtown communities, restoration projects, sketching, and painting. She loves spending time with her family and her two children.
Megan Cartwright joined the MMSC team as the Field Services Coordinator. She received her B.A. in Historic Preservation from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA in December 2019. Megan has previous work experience in customer service, preservation trades, and easement documentation. Her hobbies include studying art history, traveling, and spending time with her family and their many pets.
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Mark your calendar for
Celebrate Preservation Month!
May 1 - 31, 2020
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MMSC will celebrate Preservation Month in May 2020 by once again promoting events in Missouri communities. Planning has already started! MMSC will produce a calendar of events, brochures, T-shirts, and other items to help with your celebration. We encourage celebration in local communities to show that "This Place Matters." If you have questions, please contact Diane Hannah. Diane@MoMainStreet.org
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Keith Winge traveled to Kirksville for the My Community Matters Initiative. Keith provided Main Street Kirksville with a workshop geared toward action planning and transformation strategies.
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Downtown Lee's Summit Named Winner of the Small Business Saturday Neighborhood Champion Innovation Contest
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Downtown Lee’s Summit continued their successful scratch-off card promotion, which has helped increase Small Business Saturday® merchant participation from 14 businesses in 2014 to more than 50 in 2018.
Read the full article from Main Street America on the link below.
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We want to thank these partners for their investment in Missouri Main Street for the month of January.
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Jacques Abadie
Russell Anderson
Canton Main Street Association
Centralia Chamber of Commerce
Downtown Excelsior Partnership
Florissant Old Town Partners
City of Jackson
Kearney Enrichment Council
Bridgette Kelch
Monett Main Street Inc.
Main Street Parkville Association
Brian & Wendy Roberson
Ken & Gayla Roten
City of Sedalia
Steven Hoffman & Margaret Waterman
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Missouri Main Street Connection | 417-334-3014 | info@momainstreet.org | momainstreet.org
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Missouri Main Street Connection is a statewide, 501c3, not-for-profit organization committed to fostering renewed vitality and sustainability in historic commercial districts across the state of Missouri.
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