Bath, Maine, Earns A 2012 Swell American Brain Street Award
Source: 2012 Great American Main Street Awards winner. The National Trust chose exclusively 5 communities inwards the USA "whose successes serve equally a model for comprehensive commercial district revitalization." Other winners include Culpepper,Va., Jacksonville, Ill., Valley Junction/West Des Moines, Iowa, together with Washington, Mo.
I know it must accept been a daunting chore for the Preservation to conduct towns together with cities for this award, equally together with hence many communities inwards our smashing the world accept worked together with hence difficult to ameliorate their downtown districts. Locally, I intend of, inwards add-on to Bath, Melrose, Mass., Wakefield, Mass., Bellows Falls, Vt., together with Saco, Maine, equally shining examples. That beingness said, I believe that Bath was a fine pick for this accolade. Last time, I visited inwards 2008, Bath actually impressed me with its overnice mix of stores together with restaurants, together with the renovated historic commercial buildings displaying practiced signage together with American flags. There's clearly a pride of ownership chemical part going on here.
As a sucker for the "Main Street USA" look, it was a revelation to come across the independently-owned Wilson's Drug Store, Bath Book Shop, Bath Sweet Shoppe, the historic-looking J.R. Maxwell together with Pub bringing together with other local businesses bringing an appealing back-in-the-day expect to downtown Bath. All inwards all, it was actually a pleasance to catch this revitalized downtown! I suppose that's what happens when there's a mandate for equal representation with Bath businesses, residents, together with metropolis authorities to ameliorate its community. Every town together with metropolis should follow this model!
"It's the dedication behind the 'Main Street' squad that actually helped alter Bath," said Samantha RickerGoad, the director's assistant at VisitBath. "The downtown has completely turned roughly from 10 years ago. The people hither tin flame live on proud of where they live. We've ever been known equally the abode of Bath Iron Works, which is real special, but I ever knew it could live on together with hence much more...It's definitely the quintessential New England downtown."
As a nipper inwards the 1970s, I recollect a to a greater extent than dissimilar Bath. If my retentiveness serves me correct, downtown Bath looked similar whatsoever other gritty modest industrial city. I didn't desire to live on hither equally a house to halt for lunch, particularly afterwards visiting beautiful Acadia National Park together with Boothbay Harbor.
Now it's a dissimilar storey inwards Bath. Although you lot tin flame even together with hence come across some gritty elements, I believe this industrial plant to Bath's wages -- that is, the "roots" of this metropolis remind us of the smashing shipbuilding manufacture spell keeping the community from becoming simply some other gentrified, overly precious reclamation project. I expect frontwards to seeing give-up the ghost on relevant, appropriate evolution inwards what is i of my favorite modest cities inwards all of New England!
I know it must accept been a daunting chore for the Preservation to conduct towns together with cities for this award, equally together with hence many communities inwards our smashing the world accept worked together with hence difficult to ameliorate their downtown districts. Locally, I intend of, inwards add-on to Bath, Melrose, Mass., Wakefield, Mass., Bellows Falls, Vt., together with Saco, Maine, equally shining examples. That beingness said, I believe that Bath was a fine pick for this accolade. Last time, I visited inwards 2008, Bath actually impressed me with its overnice mix of stores together with restaurants, together with the renovated historic commercial buildings displaying practiced signage together with American flags. There's clearly a pride of ownership chemical part going on here.
As a sucker for the "Main Street USA" look, it was a revelation to come across the independently-owned Wilson's Drug Store, Bath Book Shop, Bath Sweet Shoppe, the historic-looking J.R. Maxwell together with Pub bringing together with other local businesses bringing an appealing back-in-the-day expect to downtown Bath. All inwards all, it was actually a pleasance to catch this revitalized downtown! I suppose that's what happens when there's a mandate for equal representation with Bath businesses, residents, together with metropolis authorities to ameliorate its community. Every town together with metropolis should follow this model!
"It's the dedication behind the 'Main Street' squad that actually helped alter Bath," said Samantha RickerGoad, the director's assistant at VisitBath. "The downtown has completely turned roughly from 10 years ago. The people hither tin flame live on proud of where they live. We've ever been known equally the abode of Bath Iron Works, which is real special, but I ever knew it could live on together with hence much more...It's definitely the quintessential New England downtown."
As a nipper inwards the 1970s, I recollect a to a greater extent than dissimilar Bath. If my retentiveness serves me correct, downtown Bath looked similar whatsoever other gritty modest industrial city. I didn't desire to live on hither equally a house to halt for lunch, particularly afterwards visiting beautiful Acadia National Park together with Boothbay Harbor.
Now it's a dissimilar storey inwards Bath. Although you lot tin flame even together with hence come across some gritty elements, I believe this industrial plant to Bath's wages -- that is, the "roots" of this metropolis remind us of the smashing shipbuilding manufacture spell keeping the community from becoming simply some other gentrified, overly precious reclamation project. I expect frontwards to seeing give-up the ghost on relevant, appropriate evolution inwards what is i of my favorite modest cities inwards all of New England!
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