HOPE – Main Street Arkansas and the Hope Downtown Network recently awarded seven downtown businesses with eight mini grants that focus on restoration and preservation of downtown businesses. These recipients were chosen after an application process through Main Street Arkansas and the Hope Downtown Network. The funds are reimbursable for external and internal building improvements once the projects are completed. The community will begin to see progress made to downtown due to these grants. These grants totaled $6000 which were given in $500 and $1000 increments. Congratulations to the following:
Vintage Girls Boutique & More, Connie Lavender
Jeff’s on Main, Jeff Smith
Hope Opportunity Fund LLC, Stephen Harris
SWARK.Today, Mark Ross & Jim Hawley
Elm Street Marketplace, Barbara Noble
Ethel Mae’s, Arnetta Bradford
The Studio/Heather Clements Photography, Heather Clements
Main Street Arkansas works to strengthen and preserve historic downtowns and Main Street districts across the state. It provides technical assistance, resources, and ongoing education to local programs to help them implement and excel in the Main Street Four-Point Approach creating a vivid and vital sense of place. Hope Downtown Network became an Arkansas Downtown network program in 2018.