Purpose: To encourage the improvement of the Main Street District’s physical appearance.
- Complete building inventory (building information, current and historic photographs)
- Schedule Main Street Iowa Design Assistance visits
- Identify 2020 MSI Challenge Grant candidate
- Host regular (quarterly?) downtown clean-ups
- Plan and implement small beautification projects (planters, seasonal decorations, window displays, rotating banners towards street…)
- Improve downtown signage (remove former business signs, enhance current signs, add business hour signage…)
- Plan and implement boulevard improvements (MSI design assistance/charette, potential partnership with Whiterock?)
- Form art committee and identify potential projects (grain bin art)
- Develop a small incentive program to help encourage building improvement
- Adopt Main Street “Building Improvement File” as local design guidelines
- Wayfinding signage
- New light poles
- Façade rehabs: apply for CDBG Downtown Revitalization Fund
To volunteer or for questions about the design team, contact the design chair,
Gayla McCool.