Main Street
Delaware City's Official Government Website
Affiliated with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Main Street Delaware City, Inc. is committed to assisting residents, local merchants, and property owners in enhancing their property values, boosting their businesses, and promoting a healthy community where people want to live and work.
Main Street Four Point Approach:
The Main Street program's success is based on a comprehensive strategy of work tailored to local needs and opportunities in four broad areas called the Main Street Four Point Approach:
| Design: |
Enhancing the physical appearance of the commercial district by rehabilitating historic buildings, encouraging supportive new construction, developing sensitive design management systems and long-term planning. |
| Organization: |
Building consensus and cooperation among the many groups and individuals who have a role in the revitalization process. |
| Promotion: |
Marketing the traditional commercial district's assets to customers, potential investors, new businesses, local citizens and visitors. |
| Economic Restructuring: |
Strengthening the district's existing economic base while finding ways to expand it to meet new opportunities -- and challenges from outlying development. |
The Main Street Philosophy:
The National Main Street Center's experience in helping communities bring their downtowns back to life has shown time and time again that the Main Street Four Point Approach succeeds only when combined with the following eight principles:
Comprehensive: A single project cannot revitalize a downtown or commercial neighborhood. An ongoing series of initiatives is vital to build community support and create lasting progress.
Incremental: Small projects make a big difference. They demonstrate that "things are happening" on Main Street and hone the skills and confidence the program will need to tackle more complex problems.
Self-Help: Although the National Main Street Center can provide valuable direction and hands-on technical assistance, only local leadership can initiate long-term success by fostering and demonstrating community involvement and commitment to the revitalization effort.
Public/private partnership: Every local Main Street program needs the support and expertise of both the public and private sectors. For an effective partnership, each must recognize the strengths and weaknesses of the other.
Identifying and capitalizing on existing assets: One of the National Main Street Center's key goals is to help communities recognize and make the best use of their unique offerings. Local assets provide the solid foundation for a successful Main Street initiative.
Quality: From storefront design to promotional campaigns to special events, quality must be the main goal.
Change: Changing community attitudes and habits is essential to bring about a commercial district renaissance. A carefully planned Main Street program will help shift public perceptions and practices to support and sustain the revitalization process.
Action-oriented: Frequent, visible changes in the look and activities of the commercial district will reinforce the perception of positive change. Small, but dramatic improvements early in the process will remind the community that the revitalization effort is under way.
National Trust:
For more than 50 years, the National Trust has been helping people protect the irreplaceable. A private nonprofit organization with more than a quarter million members, the National Trust is the leader of the vigorous preservation movement that is saving the best of our past for the future.
The need for the National Trust has increased since its founding in 1949. When historic buildings and neighborhoods are torn down or allowed to deteriorate, a part of our past disappears forever. When that happens, we lose history that helps us know who we are, and we lose opportunities to live and work in the kinds of interesting and attractive surroundings that older buildings can provide.
These conditions are reflected in the Trust's mission statement:
The National Trust for Historic Preservation provides leadership, education and advocacy to save America's diverse historic places and revitalize our communities.
Main Street Delaware City, Inc. Board of Directors: 1/2009
| President |
Dale Slotter |
| Vice President |
Jackie Nye |
| Immediate Past President: |
Rita Marocco |
| Secretary |
Marian Young |
Treasurer
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Vanja Bucic |
| Promotions Chair |
Keith Knowlton |
| Organization Chair |
Deborah Sellers |
| Economic Restructuring Chair |
Kevin Whittaker |
| Design Chair |
Preston Cardin |
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| Main Street Program Manager |
Paul Morrill |
About Membership:
Main Street Delaware City, Inc. is a private, non-profit organization devoted to the revitalization of Delaware City.
Affiliated with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Main Street Delaware City is committed to assisting residents, local merchants, and property owners in enhancing their property values, boosting their businesses, and promoting a healthy community where people want to live and do business.
Through long range planning and with an active membership, Main Street Delaware City, Inc. can help Delaware City move towards it's goals for the future. In support of these efforts, please become a member of Main Street. Numbers do count! When we seek support for Delaware City's revitalization, we want legislators, media, public and private agencies to know the number of people who back MSDC's efforts.
Contact:
Main Street Delaware City, Inc.
P. O. Box 23
Delaware City, DE 19706
For more information call
(302)838-8740
Main Street Delaware City, Inc. is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization.
Your donations are tax deductible.
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