Medicine Lodge Downtown & Main Street

Medicine Lodge Downtown & Main Street Downtown and commercial district revitalization is nothing new.

This page is for Medicine Lodge, Kansas residents and business people (and former/future residents and business people!) interested in revitalizing our city via thetrademarked Main Street Four-Point Approach program. As long as traditional business districts have been challenged with decline, an endless stream of ideas and methodologies has been proposed, tested, and employed. No single approach w

orks everywhere, and many strategies have enjoyed limited to substantial success, depending on where and when they have been implemented. The Main Street approach has proven to be overwhelmingly effective in places where community residents have a strong emotional, social, and civic connection and are motivated to get involved and make a difference. This approach works where existing assets--such as historic buildings and local independent businesses--can be leveraged. Established in 1980, the National Trust for Historic Preservation Main Street Center helps communities of all sizes revitalize their traditional and historic commercial districts. For more information about the Main Street program and its widespread successes over the years, visit www.MainStreet.org. The trademarked Main Street Four-Point Approach is a historic preservation-based economic development tool that volunteer-driven organizations--often in stand-alone private nonprofit structures--can use to revitalize their commercial districts. Members of the community, or stakeholders, are engaged and empowered as volunteers who serve on the board of directors and committees or as financial and political supporters of the revitalization effort. The board provided governance; and the four standing committees (corresponding to the four points) implement the revitalization work. The four points of the approach are:

*Organization
*Promotion
*Design
*Economic Restructuring

While the Main Street Four-Point Approach provides the framework for revitalization, success is achieved by adhering to eight principles that apply to all areas of the revitalization effort:

*Comprehensive
*Incremental
*Self help
*Partnerships
*Identifying and capitalizing on existing assets
*Quality
*Change
*Implementation

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Medicine Lodge, KS
67104

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This page is for Medicine Lodge, Kansas residents and business people (and former/future residents and business people!) interested in revitalizing our city, via the trademarked Main Street Four-Point Approach program. Every year, the Main Street movement continues to grow and strengthen, improving the quality of life and protecting treasured historic assets and local heritage throughout the nation. Main Street communities shape their own destinies and carve out their own niches as exciting places to live, visit, work, and play. Main Streets have endless opportunities to go beyond creating strictly retail environments and can define a new role for themselves. Whether Medicine Lodge becomes known as an authentic historic downtown steeped in local heritage or a hot restaurant row or something entirely different, our Main Street program has numerous options to make our town the very best it can be. Established in 1980, the National Trust for Historic Preservation Main Street Center helps communities of all sizes revitalize their traditional and historic commercial districts. For more information about the Main Street program and its widespread successes over the years, visit www.MainStreet.org.

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