Join New Mexico MainStreet
New Mexico MainStreet restores economic vitality to our state’s downtowns through city design, promotion, economic restructuring, and organization. From July 2007 to June 2008, MainStreet spawned 112 new businesses, generated $18,700,494 in public reinvestment, and gave rise to 569 new jobs.
Currently, 21 communities are members of New Mexico MainStreet. They are: Albuquerque (Downtown Action Team), Artesia, Bernalillo, Carlsbad, Clayton, Clovis, Corrales, Deming, Farmington, Grants, Hobbs, Las Cruces, Las Vegas, Los Alamos, Lovington, Portales, Raton, Roswell, Santa Rosa, Silver City, and Tucumcari. MainStreet’s seven satellite communities include: Aztec, Belen, Chihuahita, Cochiti Lake, Quemado and Questa.
MainStreet’s program associates provide free training sessions on town design, promotion and publicity, organization, and economic restructuring. MainStreet also sponsors architecture projects through the University of New Mexico Design Planning and Assistance Center (DPAC). In the last year, these towns embarked on DPAC projects: Las Cruces, Corrales and Tucumcari.
In spring of 2008, New Mexico MainStreet, EDD, and the New Mexico Tourism Department joined forces to re-launch the travel website Off the Road. The redesigned web site shows travelers where to shop and dine on main streets, town squares, and plazas in our member communities. When the site was originally launched in early 2006, it received national attention on CNN.com, USAToday.com and many others.
New Mexico MainStreet is the local division of the National Main Street Center in Washington, D.C., part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Applications are accepted annually. To find out more about New Mexico MainStreet, contact Rich Williams, Director of New Mexico MainStreet, (505) 827-0168 or Rich.Williams@state.nm.us
Meet the 2008-2009 MainStreet Associates