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Uptown Lexington
About Uptown Lexington
About Lexington
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Lexington, North Carolina, is known as the "Barbeque Capital of the World." Each year the city hosts the annual Lexington Barbecue Festival, a major event that attracts over 100,000 visitors.
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The Uptown Lexington district boasts one of three National Register Historic Districts.
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Plans are in place to renovate Lexington’s oldest and most unique properties, one by one, for mixed-use development that encourages upper-story residential and office uses, with street-level retail and restaurants.
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Our primary focus is creating unique and engaging spaces and opportunities where diverse individuals in our community come together for a multitude of reasons, including to live, shop, work, and engage with one another.
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Uptown Lexington, Inc. is a Main Street America™-accredited program recognized for celebrating community character, preserving local history, and generating economic returns.
We are a nonprofit 501 (c) 3 organization charged with administering the Main Street Program and managing the revitalization of the Uptown Center in Lexington. Our mission is to enrich and empower our community by fostering growth and facilitating opportunities. We are dedicated to being a catalyst for economic vitality, creating a vibrant sense of place that inspires community pride and engagement. Through our efforts, we aim to cultivate an environment where current residents and future generations can live, work, and thrive, ensuring a prosperous and connected community for years to come.
Our Vision:
Uptown Lexington is the center for vitality, culture and growth where people are drawn to gather, connect and live.
As a Main Street America™ Accredited program, Uptown Lexington, Inc is a recognized leading program among the national network of more than 1,200 neighborhoods and communities that share both a commitment to creating high-quality places and to building stronger communities through preservation-based economic development. All Main Street America™ Accredited programs meet a set of National Accreditation Standards of Performance as outlined by Main Street America.
Uptown Lexington is a North Carolina Main Street community, designated by the N.C. Department of Commerce Main Street & Rural Planning Center. Uptown Lexington, Inc. is charged with administering the program at the local level and building public-private partnerships to spur economic development that achieves measurable results such as investment, business growth, and job creation.
Meet Our Team
Travis Stewart
Executive Director
Greg Baer
President
Julie Harshaw
President-Elect
Jeff Smith
Past-President
Josh Tackett
Secretary
Conrad McKnight
Treasurer
Dan Briggs
Alan Lomax
Fred McClure
Travis Stewart
Executive Director
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Jessica McDaniel
Secretary
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Jeff Smith
President
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Main Street Program
We Are a Proud NC Main Street Designated Community
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North Carolina Main Street Rural Planning Center
The NC Main Street & Rural Planning Center is North Carolina's state coordinating program for Main Street America. The NC Main Street staff are charged by the NC Department of Commerce to facilitate downtown economic development, using the Main Street America Four Point Approach, in designated communities. The Main Street Approach™ is centered around economic development strategies that will transform downtown. These strategies articulate a focused path to revitalizing or strengthening a downtown economy. Designated NC Main Street community's work is organized around the Four Point Approach: Economic Vitality, Design, Promotion, and Organization.
The selection process is competitive. The NC Main Street & Rural Planning Center's Downtown Associate Community is the first step towards the NC Main Street Designation. Communities are selected every other year via a competitive application process. North Carolina municipalities, with an identifiable traditional downtown business district and a certified population under 50,000 are eligible to apply to the Center for services under the Downtown Associate Community program. Selected communities will receive three years of downtown revitalization technical assistance services from the NC Main Street & Rural Planning Center and may have the opportunity to move up to Main Street designation upon successful completion of the program.
Learn More: NC Main Street & Rural Planning Center
The National Main Street Program | Main Street America™
Main Street America™ has been helping revitalize older and historic commercial districts for more than 35 years. Today it is a network of more than 1,600 neighborhoods and communities, rural and urban, who share both a commitment to place and to building stronger communities through preservation-based economic development. Main Street America is a program of the nonprofit National Main Street Center, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation o Main Street America™ is a movement. Main Street America has been helping revitalize older and historic commercial districts for more than 40 years. It is the leading voice for
preservation-based economic development and community revitalization across the country. Made up of small towns, mid-sized communities, and urban commercial districts, Main Street America represents the broad diversity that makes this country so unique. Working together, the programs that make up the Main Street America network help to breathe new life into the places people call home.
Main Street America is a mark of distinction. It is a seal, recognizing that participating programs, organizations, and communities are part of a national movement with a proven track record for celebrating community character, preserving local history, and generating impressive economic returns. Since 1980, over 2,000 communities have been part of Main Street, bringing renewed energy and activity to America’s downtowns and commercial districts, securing $61 billion in new investment creating more than 525,000 net new jobs and rehabilitating 251,000 buildings.
Main Street America is a time-tested strategy. Main Street America communities are encouraged to make use of a time-tested approach, known as the Main Street Approach. The Main Street Approach is rooted in a commitment to broad-based community engagement, a holistic understanding of the factors that impact the quality of life in a community, and strategic focus on the core principles of downtown and neighborhood revitalization: Economic Vitality, Design, Promotion, and Organization.
Learn More: Main Street America