MMS provides technical assistance for communities desiring to develop their own local Main Street program by utilizing the Main Street Approach™ – a common-sense approach to tackling the complex issues of revitalization by capitalizing on downtown’s history and identifying the unique assets of the community itself.
The Main Street Approach
The Main Street Approach™ is a unique, historic preservation based economic development strategy that focuses on leveraging existing social, economic, physical and cultural assets to energize community revitalization efforts and help manage success for the long term. The approach leads to tangible outcomes that benefit the entire community through encouraging communities to enact long-term change while also implementing short-term, inexpensive and place-based activities that attract people to the commercial core and create a sense of enthusiasm about the community.
Michigan Main Street Impact
LiveBuchanan Growth
March 2022
Board Formed
January 2023
Non-Profit Status Achieved
March 2023
MMS Engaged Level Status Achieved
GOAL - Fall 2023
Apply to MEDC to be Recognized as “Michigan Main Street.”
