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Jan 14, 2014 by Windham Chamber

Thread City Receives Main St Grant

Connecticut Main Street Center Awards $70,000 to Seven Communities

2014 Preservation of Place Grants Winners Announced

(Hartford, CT – January 13, 2014) – Connecticut Main Street Center (CMSC), the downtown revitalization and economic development non-profit, announced today that seven organizations and municipalities have been awarded a total of $70,000 in 2014 Preservation of Place grants. These grants will be used to provide Connecticut communities in Bridgeport, Canton, Essex, New London, Norwalk, the Northwest corner, and Willimantic with targeted resources to increase their capacity to plan for preservation and revitalization initiatives in their downtowns and neighborhood commercial districts.

 

“Historic preservation and the revitalization of our Main Streets create jobs, bring vacant buildings back on the tax rolls and add value and vitality to adjacent buildings and neighborhoods,” said John Simone, CMSC President & CEO. “This year’s winners are taking steps to implement these types of positive changes by proactively planning for the growth and improvement of their downtowns.”

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The Preservation of Place grant program provides a source of funding for new initiatives that can be integrated into, and leverage, comprehensive Main Street preservation and revitalization programs. The funds are meant to be flexible to meet individual community need. “The diversity of locations, from the Northwest Corner of Connecticut to New London, matched with the diversity of projects, from creative placemaking in urban open spaces to organizational and leadership development that will improve the management function in downtown, will allow each community to respond to their greatest current need, actively creating their direction of growth,” said Mr. Simone.

 

The winners will receive between $5,000 and $14,500 in Preservation of Place grant funds. Thewinning organizations and initiatives are: the Bridgeport Downtown Special Services District for the creation of a plan that will use open spaces to facilitate creating placemaking in downtown Bridgeport; the Town of Canton for the development of Collinsville Village Zoning Regulations; the Town of Essex for a Centerbrook Visioning & Action Plan; New London Main Street for an organizational and leadership development and capacity-building plan, Norwalk 2.0 for the Freese Park Artist Village Plan; the Northwest CT Regional Planning Collaborative for Active Main Street: Enlivening Village Center Public Spaces; and Thread City Development, Inc. (Willimantic) for an organizational and leadership development plan.

 

Since 2008, CMSC has awarded $376,130 through the Preservation of Place grant program to twenty Connecticut communities, leveraging $842,727 in local Main Street initiatives. The program receives support from the State Historic Preservation Office with funds from the Community Investment Act.

About Connecticut Main Street Center

The mission of CT Main Street Center is to be the champion and leading resource for vibrant and sustainable Main Streets as foundations for healthy communities. CMSC is dedicated to community and economic development within the context of historic preservation, and is committed to bringing Connecticut’s commercial districts back to life socially and economically.

 

The Main Street initiative is one of the most successful economic development programs in the country. For every $1 spent on a local Main Street program, $71.33 is reinvested in Connecticut Main Street downtowns. CMSC is supported by its Founding Sponsors, the Department of Economic & Community Development (DECD) and The Connecticut Light and Power Company. CMSC is also supported by its Growth Sponsors, UIL Holdings and the State Historic Preservation Office. More information is available at www.ctmainstreet.org.

Contact:

Christine Schilke

860-280-2356

christine@ctmainstreet.org

 

 

 

 

Connecticut Main Street Center
c/o CL&P, PO Box 270

Hartford CT 06141

www.ctmainstreet.org

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