Welcome to Main Street Lincoln! We are here to promote, enhance, and preserve the commercial and civic enterprises of downtown Lincoln in the Courthouse Square Historic District. Explore what our website has to offer and then come enjoy our beautiful historic downtown.
In 2008, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture published the book, Economic Value of Urban Design, which analyzed the impact of community Main Street programs in Texas. Some of his findings include:
- Higher percentages of job increases in active Main Street cities.
- The most significant changes in increased property values, retail sales volume and ground floor rental rates occurred in small city programs.
- More entrepreneurship in active Main Street cities than in former and non-Main Street cities.
- Higher (and in some cases, 'considerably higher') taxable retail sales occurred in Main Street cities
- Both financial and nonfinancial benefits accrued from participating in the Main Street effort
"The Main Street Four-Point Approach [is] the most successful of all 16 downtown development strategies studied."
This book is available at Amazon
here
What is interesting as well is that the Executive Director of Main Street Punta Gorda (Florida) wrote a column for her local paper that included facts from the book. It's an approach that might work for some of you with your local papers. Here's a link to that
story
Thanks to Katherine Correll, Executive Director of Downtown Colorado, Inc. for this info.
