What is the Urban Main Program?
Urban Main, a new program of the National Main Street Center, offers a new set of community-driven economic development services to help under-resourced older and historic neighborhood commercial districts restore economic vitality and promote quality of life.
UrbanMain will use many of the features of Main Street America grounded by the Main Street Four-Point Approach (Design, Organization, Promotion and Economic Vitality). However, urban districts often have different priorities, such as security, infrastructure, transportation, high vacancy rates, and access to capital, as well as addressing gentrification which may be different from priorities faced by other Main Street communities