Technical Assistance
Main Street™ Revitalization Consulting Services
The National Trust Main Street Center's consulting and training services help communities meet the challenges and opportunities facing their downtowns and neighborhood commercial districts. Our goal is to provide communities with the tools and information for successful, sustainable revitalization. We work with each client to design services that meet local needs and resources.
Our skills and expertise help communities develop and strengthen community-based commercial district revitalization efforts and implement highly effective, successful revitalization projects.
The Main Street Consulting Services staff offers a comprehensive range of services to traditional downtowns and neighborhood business districts in cities, small towns, high-growth communities, and inner-ring suburbs. We provide consulting, technical assistance, and training to new and existing Main Street programs, business improvement districts, community development corporations, downtown development authorities, chambers of commerce, and municipal governments.
The National Trust Main Street Center works with all types of communities in all stages of revitalization. By working with the Main Street Center, your community gets the benefit of decades of expertise, in-the-trenches knowledge, and proven revitalization expertise – straight from the original Main Street source!
For more information on Main Street Field Services, please contact the Main Street Center at (202) 588-6219 or mainstreet@nthp.org.
Real Estate Development and Finance
The National Trust Loan Fund offers a wealth of expertise to help build the capacity of Main Street communities and Statewide and Local Partners in preservation-based real estate development. Its training topics including utilizing tax incentives, demystifying the loan process and principles of real estate development. It also offers a Preservation Road Show, where a team of NTLF staff visit a community and help local stakeholders shape bankable real estate development projects and plan and finance the creative reuse of existing assets.
Heritage Tourism
The National Trust's Heritage Tourism program helps communities develop successful and sustainable programs that will enhance cultural and heritage attractions for residents and visitors alike. Consulting services are available on a fee-for-service basis in strategic planning, preservation, tourism development, interpretation, and marketing. The Heritage Tourism program offers a series of "how-to" materials to help individuals and organizations develop cultural and heritage tourism programs and is a national advocate for cultural heritage tourism issues. The Heritage Tourism program is an active participant in Partners in Tourism, a coalition of cultural and heritage tourism practitioners.
For more information about the National Trust's Heritage Tourism program, please contact National Trust's Mountains/Plains Regional Office at (303) 623-1504 or e-mail mpro@nthp.org.
Center for Preservation Leadership
The National Trust for Historic Preservation's Center for Preservation Leadership strengthens and supports a network of committed and informed preservation leaders by providing the tools and resources needed to carry out preservation activities in their own states and communities. The center accomplishes this mission by providing educational opportunities and information resources for preservation leaders and their organizations.
Regional Offices
The National Trust for Historic Preservation's regional and field offices bring the programs and tools of the National Trust to local communities across the country. They offer technical assistance through consultations and field visits and financial assistance, primarily through small grants to help jump start local efforts. They convene educational programs for professional preservationists, and they work to foster preservation-friendly public polices which affect historic places. They also provide leadership on issues that concern entire regions, such as saving historic schools, fighting sprawl, and revitalizing cities through historic preservation.
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