Is a Main Street
right for us?
The team at SmithDistrict have spent their careers working with Main Street organizations, Business Improvement Districts, and Community Development Corporations to help them help their local communities. Each one is unique in their needs and goals.
Founding and running a BID, a CDC or a Main Street is hard work, but it can be very rewarding and can really change a community. Reach out to SmithDistrict today to find out more on if a Main Street program is right for your neighborhood.
In addition to over a dozen years at the helm of Barracks Row Main Street, our Managing Partner Martin Smith has also worked with the Fairmount Community Development Corporation in Philadelphia and the 14th Street Heights Main Street program in upper NW Washington DC.
Some of his current and previous consulting clients have included the DC Department of Small and Local Business Development, Georgetown Main Street, Glover Park Main Street, Historic Dupont Circle Main Streets, Rhode Island Avenue Main Street, North Capitol Main Street, the Ward 7 Business Partnership, and many others. Martin has volunteered his time with several DC neighborhoods, including two of the newest Main Street designees Van Ness and Tenleytown, as they navigated the process of becoming a Main Street community.
Email SmithDistrict now to find out more about the products and services available to your neighborhood and how SmithDistrict can help you lobby for funding and submit an application to become a new Main Street program, or to help make your existing program stronger and more efficient.
And if you think perhaps your community might not be ready for a full Main Street program just yet, click here to find out more about an exciting new concept, Main Street C.O.R.E., that can help you build capacity and develop your organization using a leaner, more focused model with a substantially smaller fundraising burden!
What about helping our existing Main Street with some of our challenges?
Every Main Street program goes through growing pains as they evolve, and every Main Street needs a little help sometimes in setting and attaining goals and priorities. SmithDistrict can help! Contact us today for more information on board development, community visioning, fundraising and fund development planning, executing successful events, fundraising with events, urban design studies, market analysis, and more!