DUBOIS – Downtown DuBois Revitalization Group has been designated as an accredited National Main Street Program for meeting the commercial district revitalization performance standards set by the National Trust Main Street Center. Each year, the National Trust and its partners announce the list of accredited Main Street programs that have built strong revitalization organizations and demonstrate their ability in using the Main Street Four Point Approach methodology for strengthening their local economy and protecting their historic buildings.
“We congratulate this year’s nationally accredited Main Street programs for meeting our established performance standards,” says Doug Loescher, director of the National Trust Main Street Center. “Accredited Main Street programs are meeting the challenges of the recession head on and are successfully using a focused, comprehensive revitalization strategy to keep their communities vibrant and sustainable.
The organization’s performance is annually evaluated by the Pennsylvania Downtown Center, which works in partnership with the National Trust Main Street Center to identify local programs that meet 10 performance standards. These standards set the benchmarks for measuring an individual Main Street program’s application of the Main Street Four Point Approach to commercial district revitalization.
Evaluation criteria determines the communities that are building comprehensive and sustainable revitalization efforts and include standards such as developing a mission, fostering strong private-public partnerships, securing an operating budget, tracking economic progress, and preserving historic buildings. For more information on the national program accreditation program, visit www.mainstreet.org/nationalprograms.
President of the Greater DuBois Chamber of Commerce and Vice President of the Board of Directors for Downtown DuBois Revitalization Group, Nancy Micks says that “Any group can further itself by becoming accredited, and by doing this they step up, making us all realize just how important these groups really are to the community.”
Downtown DuBois is a community-driven initiative that encourages revitalization by promoting local ownership, personal service and historic preservation. Downtown DuBois strives to facilitate the re-creation of our downtown as a destination of choice. Together with its merchants, property owners, public officials and concerned residents, the organization embraces the restoration of this area as the keystone of retail, cultural and social activities within our region by ensuring and promoting an eclectic mix of available goods, services and activities delivered in a sensory-provocative, customer-focused fashion.