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UPCOMING
EVENTS
First
City Festival, Rockin’ on the River II, will be September 12 & 13!
Continuous
Entertainment, Fantastic Food, Activities, Games & Artisans!
Vendor
applications coming soon. Mark your calendar and be a part of
this FUN festival.
Call
our office for details, 913-682-3924.
Haymarket
Flea Market
1st
Saturday of the Month
May-ONovember
Great
deals, good times!
Become
a vendor...sign up now.
Leavenworth
Main Street Receives National Accreditation...read
more.
Destination
Creation Webinar - “Free” to Main Street Members
2008
Topics
Registration
Form
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The
National Main Street Program was developed in the 1970’s through the
National Trust for Historic Preservation. It was designed as a “grass roots”
program focusing on commercial district revitalization in both urban and
rural downtown districts. The program utilizes an innovative methodology of
historic preservation combined with economic development. Today a network
consisting of more than 1,200 active state, city and county Main Street
Programs is working to restore prosperity and vitality to downtowns and
neighborhood business districts across the nation. Those programs accomplish
their work through the Main Street 4 Point approach of Design, Organization,
Promotion and Economic Restructuring.
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The Leavenworth
Main Street Program is part of that nationwide network. Revitalization
efforts in Downtown Leavenworth actually began in the mid 1980’s when the
Leavenworth Revitalization Committee was formed. The committee consisted of
a variety of downtown merchants and business people, city officials,
representatives from Fort Leavenworth and other interested individuals. In
1995, the committee realized they needed a more organized effort and better
access to state and national funding and technical advice and design
assistance. Since joining the National Main Street Program the Leavenworth
Main Street Program has had a tremendous impact upon the downtown area. A
few examples include:
- Development of a
National Historic District comprising more than 65 buildings.
- Over $22 million reinvested in the downtown area through building
rehabilitation, new construction, façade renovations and a variety of other
improvement projects.
- Kansas State grant program Incentives Without Walls (IWW) awards of over
$100,000 to downtown businesses for renovations and repairs.
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