Developing Community Leaders Main Street Managers Gather for Training
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ne of the reasons the Texas Main Street Program is so successful is the support that is provided to Main Street Cities by the Texas Main Street Office. The Texas Main Street Program (TMSP) is part of the Community Heritage Development Division of the Texas Historical Commission. The TMSP is the state coordinating program that operates in affiliation with the National Main Street Center of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In 1981, following a pilot project of the national center that studied ways to address the decline of America’s downtowns, the TMSP became one of the first six state coordinating programs in the nation. In 2007 Longview applied for recertification in the Texas Main Street Program through the Chamber’s Downtown Development Division and the One Hundred Acres of Heritage. Longview was the first Urban Main Street City in 1987. In 1994, Longview withdrew from the TMSP. Longview received recertification in 2008 with Paul Anderson, Senior Vice President serving as the Main Street Manager and Elaine Reynolds, Vice President as program director. In 2012 Kayla Cantey was hired to take on the responsibilities of Longview Main Street Manager. Kayla Cantey will be attending Texas Main Street Managers winter
training this January. The winter training is a required training for all new Main Street Managers and for continuing Managers as well. Managers new to the program received one and a half days of intensive orientation and training in the state program. They are joined by the rest of the program manager for two more days of training. The Training will be held January 28th to February 1st in Llano, TX located about an hour Northwest of Austin. Each year the training is held in a different Main Street City. The annual meeting for all managers begins on Wednesday afternoon and goes through Friday noon. The keynote speaker will be from the CLUE Group (Community Land Use and Economics Group) and will address Market Analysis and how this can be beneficial to both small and large cities. The rest of the week, managers will learn from local projects in Llano (such as their Texas Capital Fund project along the river next to downtown, their restoration efforts for the historic Red Top Jail, the Main Street operation of the LanTex Theater, and more), as well as attend sessions on Main Street design issues and other topics. Wednesday evening, the cities that achieved National Recognition will be announced.
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