How can our community benefit?
Through the Pioneer Communities Program, communities work to restore the physical and economic vitality of their downtown business districts. This process--the Main Street Approach--isn't a "quick fix." It builds sustainable change on incremental steps. But communities that establish and maintain a focus on downtown revitalization can achieve:
- Greater economic stability
- Rehabilitation and re-use of important historic commercial and public buildings
- Reduced vacancy
- Increased sales and property tax revenues
- Restoration of downtown as the center of commercial, civic, and cultural activities
- Enhanced sense of community identity
- More effective use of community resources