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Learn about the elements and process of the Community Evaluation Framework.
In this episode of Main Street Business Insights, host Matt Wagner sat down with The Barbershop Conversation podcast team, co-hosts Kenneth Bentley and Davion Hampton along with executive producer Emory Green Jr., in Goldsboro, Florida.
Learn about the six Community Evaluation Standards that aim to elevate local revitalization efforts.
In this week’s episode of Main Street Business Insights, host Matt Wagner sits down with mother-daughter duo, Martha Moore and Ashley Owens, co-owners and founders of the custom drapery business Martha & Ash in downtown Camden, South Carolina.
This Standard reviews the Main Street organizations’ essential role in fostering a culture of inclusion, engagement, collaboration, and commitment from all sectors of the community.
Use this tool to help you understand property characteristics and history, ownership, environmental conditions, and reuse planning to make more informed decisions. Published by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
This Standard places a strong value on people as Main Street’s greatest resource and should reflect our network’s core value that Main Streets are for everyone.
In this episode of Main Street Business Insights, host Matt Wagner sat down with the founder and CEO of 37 Oaks, Terrand Smith. Located in Chicago, Illinois, 37 Oaks is a commerce development and learning laboratory for entrepreneurs.
This Standard places a strong value on people as Main Street’s greatest resource and should reflect our network’s core value that Main Streets are for everyone.
In the inaugural episode of Main Street Business Insights, host Matt Wagner sat down with the co-founder and CEO of Maine Grains, Amber Lambke. Located in downtown Skowhegan, Maine,
This Standard promotes the value of Main Street as a comprehensive framework for addressing all aspects of revitalization through a strategy-driven balanced level of activities centered around the proven Four-Points
Watch this webinar to learn how market data and local research can make the case among board members, businesses, elected officials, and the general public.