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Small Town Main Street Wilkesboro , NC In 2017 Dale and Michelle Isom purchased the 1915 historic Federal Building in downtown...

2018 Best Business Retention, Expansion or Recruitment Effort Brevard , NC Heart of Brevard completed a retail leakage study and...

2018 Best Endangered Properties Rescue Effort Elkin , NC The building at 115 North Main Street was constructed prior to 1915, and in 1920...

2018 Best Infill Building Project Brevard , NC The corner of South Broad Street and East Jordan Street in downtown Brevard was a vacant...

2018 Best Adaptive Reuse Project Wake Forest , NC Amy and Brian Burkhardt purchased a 1940s one-story building located at 153 White...

2018 Best Adaptive Reuse Project Shelby , NC A local couple, Cliff and Angela Franklin, purchased the Historic Campbell building, located...

2018 Best Adaptive Reuse Project Goldsboro , NC 109 East Ash Street was the site of a WPA project to build the Goldsboro Fire Department...

2018 Best Adaptive Reuse Project Fuquay- Varina , NC 128 South Fuquay Avenue served as the Town of Fuquay-Varina fire department for more...

2018 Best Economic Development Incentive Marion, NC Seeking to reverse the decline in local entrepreneurs and new small business...

2018 Best Image-Building Campaign Lenoir, NC The TOGETHER WE CREATE Downtown Lenoir story-brand and comprehensive image-building campaign...

2018 Best Retail Promotion Morganton, NC The F.A.B. Crawl, which stands for Food. Arts. Brews., was developed in the spring of 2018 to...

2018 Best Downtown Special Event or Event Series Mocksville, NC Twas the Night Before Bed Race is a fun, wacky, and creative...

2018 Best Downtown Special Event or Event Series Lenoir, NC Lenoir’s Carolina Tattoo and Arts Gathering is special event that is designed...

2018 Best Volunteer Recruitment, Training and Recognition Lenoir, NC The heart of any dynamic Main Street program is its people. Their...

2018 Best Innovation Lenoir, NC The City of Lenoir Main Street program had a desire to address misconceptions and stifle myths about...

2018 Best Public-Private Partnership in Downtown Revitalization Goldsboro, NC In partnership with the National Main Street Center,...

Kenneth Hill began his involvement in downtown revitalization in 2011-2012, when he joined the Wilson Downtown Development Corporation...

Since her first election in 2001, Mayor Vivian Jones has led the charge to make Downtown Wake Forest an inviting destination to live,...

Beau Menetre and Kirk Gollwitzer of the Polk County Film Initiative set out to create the Tryon International Film Festival in 2015 to...

Liz Petree has spent many hours in service to Downtown Statesville over the last seven years. Her leadership as a Board Member, Committee...

The Spruce Pine Town Council not only provides financial stability, but is also eager to support various downtown goals and projects,...

You know how some people put in the essential hard work, do not look for recognition, and can always be counted on? Smithfield is very...

The owners of Uptown Indigo (Cliff and Angela Franklin) and Greenbrook Design (Travis and Stacey Walker) made an incredible investment in...

Few people have impacted Downtown Sanford as notably as Buck Harris. He has served on the Downtown Sanford, Inc., Board of Directors on...