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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 23, 2016
State Media Contact: Jeannie W. Zieren, Director of Training and InformationServicesEmail: [email protected], Tel: 601.941.5409
Local Media Contact: Kay Miller, Biloxi Main Street/Downtown Services Manager,City of BiloxiEmail: [email protected], Tel: 228.435.6339
National Main Street ‘Refresh’ programbegins this week in Biloxi
First series of site visits to be held Feb. 24-25, 2016
BILOXI, Miss. ~ Biloxi Main Street District was one of seven nationalprograms selected as a demonstration site by the National Main StreetCenter, Inc. to carry out community revitalization and preservationbased economic development techniques.
“Biloxi is just now, 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, recovering,” saidKay Miller, Main Street Director/Downtown Services Manager ofBiloxi. “Downtown development has been in the works and the‘Refresh’ project is beginning at the perfect time. Biloxi is soon to bevery up and coming in the very close future.”
Kathy LaPlante, Senior Program Officer with the National Main StreetCenter, and Kennedy Smith, who is best known as the longest-servingdirector of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s National MainStreet Center, will be conducting the Biloxi Refresh program.
Biloxi has invited local leaders to take part in the first two-dayrevitalization efforts, to plan and execute long-term strategic action,and effectively measure the outcome for downtown Biloxi.
The two days will consist of a tour of the district and community,strategizing sessions with city officials and will close on Thursday with aPress Conference at Biloxi City Hall at 1 p.m.
The communities selected will receive 12 to 18 months of free hands-ontechnical and community assistance from experts nationwide, fundedby the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the National Trustfor Historic Preservation.
For more details of the nationwide refresh project and its upcomingrole in the City of Biloxi, visit preservationation.org/mainstreet ormainstreetbiloxi.com.
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Biloxi Main Street is a designated program of the Mississippi Main StreetAssociation and a nationally accredited program of Main Street America. For more information, contact Biloxi Main Street at 228-435-6339 or visitwww.mainstreetbiloxi.com.
The Mississippi Main Street Association is an economic development programbased in historic preservation. MMSA is a member of the National Main StreetCenter and a program of the Mississippi Development Authority with many alliedpartners and investors. MMSA provides training and technical assistance based onthe Main Street Four-Point Approach® - Organization, Promotion, Design andEconomic Vitality - to 56 Main Street communities and network members in thestate. Since 1993, MMSA has provided more than $4 billion in public and privatere-investment back into Main Street communities. For more information, visitwww.msmainstreet.com.
Main Street America™ has been helping revitalize older and historic commercialdistricts for more than 35 years. Today it is a network of more than 1,600neighborhoods and communities, rural and urban, that share both a commitmentto place and to build stronger communities through preservation-based economicdevelopment. Main Street America is a program of the National Main Street Center,a nonprofit subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. For moreinformation, visit www.preservationnation.org/main-street.
Developing Mississippi's Downtownswww.msmainstreet.com
A Program of:
Mississippi Main Street Investors and Allied MembersPlatinum
BancorpSouth * BP America * Entergy Mississippi * Mississippi Power
GoldBlue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi * Hancock Bank * Health Management Associates – MS Division * Irby Electrical Distributor *
Renasant Bank * Sanderson Farms * St. Dominic Health Services * Trustmark National Bank
SilverAtmos Energy * Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell, & Berkowitz, PC * Barksdale Management Corp. * Biloxi Regional Medical Center *Blossman Gas * BKD LLP * Randy Burchfield * Business Communications Inc. * Business Interiors * Cadence Bank * Caterpillar, Inc. *
Charter Bank * Citizens Bank of Philadelphia * Clear Channel Radio * Coast Coca-Cola Bottling Co. * Coca-Cola Bottling Works of Corinth &Tupelo * Compton Engineering * Cooke Douglass Farr Lemons * Cooper Tire and Rubber Company* Cowboy Maloney's Electric City *
CREATE Foundation * EastGroup Properties *Farmers & Merchants Bank - Baldwyn * First Commercial Bank * First State Bank * Foundationfor the MidSouth * Horne LLP * Laws Construction * Merchants & Marine Bank * Metropolitan Bank * Mississippi Export Railroad * MitchellDistributing Co. * Neel-Schaffer * North Mississippi Health Services * Parkway Properties, Inc. * The Peoples Bank in Biloxi * Peoples Bank
of Ripley * B. Plunkett, Inc. * Regions Bank * Robinson and Associates * Roy Anderson Corporation * R.W. Reed Co. * Ross and Yerger,Inc.-Tupelo * SouthGroup Insurance Services * StateStreet Group *Structural Steel Services, Inc. * The Taylor Group * Tellus Operating
Group * University of Mississippi Medical Center * Venture Technologies * Waggoner Engineering * Yates Construction
BronzeWilliam H. Andrews * David E. Brevard * Balch & Bingham * Estabrook Toyota * First Bank and Trust * Gaddis Farms, Inc. * Gaddis &
McLaurin * Gaddis & McLaurin Gin * Gannett Foundation/The Clarion-Ledger Media Group * Hailey McNamara * Harper, Rains, Knight andCompany * Long Wholesale Distributors * Michael T. McRee * Merchants and Planters Bank * MidState Construction * Mississippi Baptist
Health Systems * Phelps Dunbar, LLP * Philips Day-Brite * Kenneth P'Pool * R & B Land Company * Suzanne M. Smith * TEC * VikingInvestments
The Electric Building | 308 East Pearl Street, Suite 101 | Jackson, MS 39201601-944-0113 | 601-353-3469 Fax | www.msmainstreet.com
District Office P. O. Box 445
Columbus, MS 39703662-364-0435
District Office2515 Demaret Dr.
Gulfport, MS 39507228-365-9090
District Office 426 Northpointe Lake Dr.
Oxford, MS 38655601-941-5409
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