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Reimagining your Main Street community to ensure that the “small town feel” endures” 

Economic Development • Grant Writing • Marketing • Community Planning

Main Street Group is an independent community planning firm that provides a full complement of planning, economic development, marketing and grant writing services on behalf of municipal clients, chambers of commerce, and business improvement districts throughout New England and Upstate New York.  

 

We believe in strong and resilient Main Street communities that function as the vibrant centerpiece of community needs and life. Integrating the needs of residents, visitors, the small business community, and all other stakeholders, we develop community-oriented planning solutions to revitalize and support your Main Street. 

WHAT WE OFFER

Community Planning

  • Comprehensive Master Plans

  • Economic Development and Placemaking Plans

  • Business attraction and retention plans

  • Grant writing

Main Streets

  • Downtown and Main Street Economic Development Plans

  • Market and retail gap analysis, and business planning

  • Placemaking, arts & cultural planning, and Public Art

  • Destination marketing and social media strategy and management

New Ruralism

  • Food Systems Planning

  • Open space, agricultural, and natural resources planning 

  • Low-impact economic development for rural municipalities

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