Great American Main Street Awards
Big box strip malls, planned “town centers” and suburban sprawl have left many Main Streets and city business districts depressed and abandoned. But many communities made a come back and have transformed their older and historic downtowns and shopping districts into vibrant places to live, work, and play--without sacrificing what makes them special. The Great American Main Street Awards (GAMSA) celebrate those places that have done this exceptionally well. In 2009, the five GAMSA winners range from a colorful mid-Atlantic beach town with year-round appeal, to a Baltimore neighborhood with a seafaring past and a bright future, to California wine country’s best kept secret.
About Main Street
GAMSA winners are all practitioners of the Main Street Four-Point Approach®. The National Trust for Historic Preservation created this revitalization methodology in the 1970s to help concerned citizens save their dying downtowns. Learn more...
