• The Main Street Four-Point Approach 
• Four elements are combined to create a well-balanced program: 
• Organization: Building partnerships to create a consistent revitalization program and develop effective management and leadership downtown. Diverse groups - merchants, bankers, public officials, the chamber of commerce and civic groups - must work together to improve downtown.
• Promotion: Reestablishing downtown as a compelling place for shoppers, investors and visitors. This means not only improving sales but also rekindling community excitement and involvement. Promotion ranges from street festivals to retail merchandising, from community education to marketing and public relations. 
• Design: Enhancing the visual quality of the downtown. Attention is given to the downtown environment elements - not just buildings and storefronts but also public improvements, rear entries, signs, landscaping, window displays and graphic materials. 
• Economic Restructuring: Strengthening the existing economic assets of the business district while diversifying its economic base. Activities include conducting market analysis to understand the changing market place, adapting vacant buildings that have outlived their original purposes for use as entertainment or cultural facilities and sharpening the competitiveness of Main Street's traditional merchants.

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• Arla Holzschuh, Preserving the History of Sumner
• What is the function of the Downtown Association?
• part of the National Main Street Center for Historic Preservation
• the National Main Street Center developed a 4-point program to strengthen historic downtown areas. For an area to qualify as an historic downtown, heritage is mandatory and therefore the buildings play a major part.
• What are some of your goals for downtown Sumner?
• My first big project of 2011 is the restoration of the cities murals.
• design and increase artwork, have regular clean-ups and work on filling buildings.

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• Hot wheels on Main Street
• show coordinator Larry Hanson
• a well-known car show organizer for more than five decades, picked up the Sumner event at the request of the Sumner Downtown Association, which feared the show wouldn’t go on this year.
• Hanson and his friend, Linda Scheibel, another car enthusiast, stepped in to save the day.
• A large portion of the net proceeds will go toward Sumner Downtown Association programming during the 2011-12 season.

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• Louann Spencer                

                       

        Store Owner at Folkart Gatherings     

• Organization
• By getting everyone working toward the same goal, your Main Street program can provide effective, ongoing management and advocacy for the your downtown or neighborhood business district.
• Promotion
• Promotions communicate your commercial district's unique characteristics, business establishments, and activities to shoppers, investors, potential business and property owners, and visitors. 
• Design
• creating a safe, inviting environment for shoppers, workers, and visitors
• Design activities also include instilling good maintenance practices in the commercial district, enhancing the district's physical appearance through the rehabilitation of historic buildings, encouraging appropriate new construction, developing sensitive design management systems, educating business and property owners about design quality, and long-term planning.
• Economic Restructuring
• provide a balanced commercial mix, sharpenng the competitiveness and merchandising skills of business owners, and attracting new businesses that the market can support.

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• Main Street Program

• For more information contact:

  Sarah Hansen

  Main Street Program Coordinator

  Washington Trust for Historic Preservation

  1204 Minor Avenue

  Seattle, Wa 98101

  (p) 206-624-9449

  (f) 206-624-2410

  Email: wamainstreet@dahp.wa.gov

  shansen@preservewa.org

   

  www.preservewa.org

• HISTORY OF SUMNER

• Sumner Downtown Association   þ   is a non-profit organization that strives to promote the   business communities of Sumner by uniting and marketing the   businesses through community involvement.

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        Puyallup/Sumner Chamber of Commerce   þ   works to build a strong business community and serves as a   go-to resource for business, community and tourism.
• Prosperity Partnership   þ   is a coalition of over 200 government, business, labor and   community organizations from King, Kitsap, Pierce, and   Snohomish counties dedicated to developing and implementing   a common economic strategy.

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• Main Street Program Executive Director
• The Executive Director is the manager of the Main Street organization and its programs, projects, and activities.
• guides project development and work planning to achieve business retention, expansion, and recruitment objectives.
• Partner with businesses to ensure services (plans and design/implementation strategy) concentrate on their needs; use identified business retention priorities to guide committee work plans

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• Film Festivals Come to Your Living Room
• One of the reasons I left Sundance was because I felt that the old days of film festivals, the idea of how you form a community at a festival, had become a steadily decreasing phenomenon. Even the multifaceted community we see in a place like Cannes was less and less real
• began primarily as cultural platforms for art films
• With all this proliferation of media, I have noticed that there is a huge desire for curatorial voices, for gatekeepers.
• The digital revolution is already multiplying the platforms via which a film festival can occur, in a way that enriches and expands upon the core event, without overriding the original experience of being in a cinema, watching a movie, and engaging with the creators. In my view, that points to a dynamic future for film festivals.

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