Downtown Preservation
Over the past 30 years, the Main Street movement has transformed the way communities think about the revitalization and management of their downtowns and neighborhood commercial districts. Cities and towns across the nation have come to see that a prosperous, sustainable community is only as healthy as its core. Downtown is the core of our community.
Historic buildings physically connect us to the past. Our Main Streets tell us who we are and who we were, and how the past has shaped us. Downtown is the place of shared memory where people still come together to live, work and play.
Over 1,600 communities nationwide have adopted the Main Street approach in the past 25 years to look again at Main Street, their heart of the community, to save its historic buildings, to revive its commercial core, to strengthen business, to control community-eroding sprawl, and keep a sense of place and community life in America.
In the past 3 years, amazing preservation projects have transformed the 5 Points area! Redevelopment of three downtown properties has created a total of 71 housing units, jobs, and retail/commercial office space. It is a combined private investment of $15 million.
Sanda Mill is a 52 unit one- and two-bedroom apartments. The restoration is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Agora was once a 2-story warehouse, it is now a showcase for downtown. Agora is a mixed-use development with 19 unit upper story loft apartments, and commercial space on the 1st floor.
HHM CPA – this 100 year old building at the intersection of Inman and Edwards Street was slated to be demolished. HHM CPA’s stepped in to preserve the space with an amazing transformation. Now this beautiful building is home for the Cleveland office for Henderson, Hutcherson, & McCullough.
