Designated Communities

Main Street programs are more than having great events and making downtown look better. At its core, Main Street is an economic development tool that enhances the tax base of a community, fosters entrepreneurship, builds community capacity, and creates partnerships among key groups in a community.

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Quick Facts

Main Streets are prominent employment centers

Main Street Alabama was launched in 2013.

Main Streets help keep profits in town

Main Street is a proven strategy for revitalization.

Main Street is a unique preservation based economic development program.

Main Street is a powerful network of linked communities.

Our Main Streets are places of shared memory where people still come together to live, work and play.

Our Main Streets tell us who we are, who we were and how the past has shaped us.