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CMS Info Presentation 09
Crawfordsville Main Street is a non-profit organization that works to revitalize downtown Crawfordsville through economic development and historic preservation initiatives using a four-point approach. Since starting in 1999, it has contributed to over $38 million in downtown investments and seen successes like building rehabilitations, events, and grants that have brought visitors and business downtown. Ongoing challenges include funding, economic conditions, community support, and volunteer recruitment.
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CMS Info Presentation 09
- 1. Crawfordsville Main StreetThis Place Matters
- 2. Is Downtown CrawfordsvilleA Worthwhile Investment? A downtown area is the symbol of a community’s economic health, quality of life, pride, and community history. A vital downtown retains and creates jobs, strengthens tax revenues, and boosts economy. A robust downtown reduces urban sprawl, supports local businesses, and keeps profits in town, supporting the community. Downtown provides an important civic forum and sense of community. Downtown areas can be visitor attractions and tourist destinations.
- 3. History The CrawfordsvilleCommercial Historic District has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1992. Crawfordsville Main Street began in 1999 as the Crawfordsville Downtown Revitalization Commission (CDRC), formed to combat the deteriorating physical features of the downtown area and a commensurate drop in economic vitality. The CDRC began with five commission members and soon expanded to ten to better serve the needs of downtown.
- 4. Marie Canine Plaza,2003 Marie Canine Plaza, 2008
- 5. Freedom Clock Plaza,Dedicated November 2002
- 6. History In March2002, the Crawfordsville Downtown Revitalization Commission became Crawfordsville Main Street when it adopted the Main Street Four-Point Approach to downtown revitalization. The National Main Street Center, created in 1980 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, advocates a four-point approach to downtown revitalization: Crawfordsville Main Street is now a nationally accredited member of both the National Main Street Center and Indiana Main Street.
- 7. Organization Organization involves getting everyone working toward the same goal and assembling the appropriate human and financial resources to implement a Main Street revitalization program. To that end, the Organization committee works to enhance community relations , recruit volunteer support, and seek a variety of methods and sources of funding.
- 8. Design An invitingatmosphere, created through attractive window displays, parking areas, building improvements, street furniture, signs, sidewalks, street lights, and landscaping, conveys a positive visual message about the commercial district and what it has to offer. Design activities also include instilling good maintenance practices in the commercial district, enhancing the physical appearance of the commercial district by rehabilitating historic buildings, encouraging appropriate new construction, developing sensitive design management systems, and long-term planning.
- 9. Promotion The Promotioncommittee enhances the downtown Crawfordsville area by providing special events to increase pedestrian traffic in the area. Promotion sells a positive image of the commercial district and encourages consumers and investors to live, work, shop, play and invest in the Main Street district. It is also the duty of the Promotion committee, in cooperation with Main Street’s press liaison, to regularly update the Crawfordsville community on Main Street accomplishments.
- 10. Economic Restructuring strengthens a community's existing economic assets while expanding and diversifying its economic base. Economic Restructuring The Main Street program helps sharpen the competitiveness of existing business owners and recruits compatible new businesses and new economic uses to build a commercial district that responds to today's consumers' needs .
- 11. Wabash Engagement Thelife of Crawfordsville’s Main Street area will be enhanced by attracting more students to shop, dine and recreate downtown. It is the charge of the Wabash Engagement committee to work with students to identify and provide appropriate retail, restaurant and entertainment venues to enhance our vibrant downtown area.
- 12. History Crawfordsville MainStreet began receiving city funds in 2003. 2003 $25,000 2004 $25,000 2005 $35,000 2006 $35,000 2007 $35,000 2008 $10,000 2009 ? Crawfordsville Main Street has contributed to over $38 million in downtown revitalization since 1999.
- 13. $39 million investmentsince 1999 - 65% private Updated streetscape design standards Historic Preservation Commission standards 7 Indiana Main Street Awards since 2003 2 Marketing Awards: “A Real Downtown” New Crawfordsville Public Library—Downtown Successes Historic Rehab of the Year (2) Design of Downtown Public Improvements (2) Business of the Year Board Member of the Year Downtown Special Event
- 14. Successes Crawfordsville DistrictPublic Library, 2002: 24,000 sq. ft. Crawfordsville District Public Library, 2008: 60,000 sq. ft.
- 15. Downtown Crawfordsville “Paintthe Town” Event, 2003
- 16. Award-winning events withaffiliated marketing Successes
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- 20. Successes Upper floorhousing: 2003 Indiana Main Street Rehab of the Year
- 21. Successes Upper floorhousing: 2003 Indiana Main Street Rehab of the Year
- 22. Successes Façade GrantProgram: 2004 Indiana Main Street Rehab of the Year
- 23. Successes Façade GrantProgram
- 24. Successes Façade GrantProgram
- 25. Successes CMS hasworked in conjunction with many local organizations to bring positive change to the community. Crawfordsville Art League Flower Lovers’ Garden Club Wabash College Montgomery County Community Foundation Crawfordsville Electric Light & Power Montgomery County Visitors & Convention Bureau Crawfordsville High School Students of Dr. Helen Hudson
- 26. Challenges Funding EconomicDownturn Community Support/Perception Volunteers New and Continuing Relevant Events
- 27. Solutions Grant AwardsNeighborhood Assistance Program (NAP): State funded program that encourages the support of community-minded organizations like Main Street
- 28. Solutions Grant AwardsDowntown Enhancement Grant from Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA): for marketing and branding program “This Place Matters”
- 29. Solutions Recruiting VolunteersGrassroots Education & Outreach Partnering with community organizations to define Main Street’s role and enhance Crawfordsville pride Continuing City Investment in Downtown
- 30. Solutions Crawfordsville MainStreet is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All donations are tax deductible to the extent of the law. Please consult your tax advisor for more information. Membership Levels Plaza Level - $25 Arts and Culture Level - $50 Business Level - $100 Special Events Level - $250 “This Place Matters” Level - $500
- 31. What Can YouDo? Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little farther on towards the heights of excellence. --B.J. Marshall