By Frank Quinn on February 8, 2010
Do you want to make your community a better place to live, work, play, and visit, while increasing civic pride and property values? If so, then you need to check out America in Bloom.
A nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting beautification programs through the use of flowers, plants, and trees (in addition to other environmental & [...]
Posted in 2010 Annual Conference, Around Ohio, Our Blog | Tagged 2010 conference, america in bloom, annual preservation and revitalization conference
By Jeff Siegler on January 28, 2010
The restaurant recently opened in downtown Bellefontaine in a renovated warehouse. The liquor license was possible through the new revitalization district liquor permit legislation. The restaurant’s owner is committed to community involvement, environmental protection, purchasing local and employing and training the developmentally disable. This is a great success story and embodies so much of the spirit and thinking that [...]
Posted in Around Ohio, Buy Local, Main Street News, Our Blog
By Joyce Barrett on January 26, 2010
Heritage Ohio is happy to announce that we have received a $99,000 grant from the USDA to provide technical assistance to business people in targeted rural communities. Our program “Retail is Detail” provides market analysis and individual business recommendations to participants to fine-tune their strategy for succeeding in bringing more more jobs and business to [...]
Posted in Main Street News, Our Blog | Tagged ARRA, Downtown Revitalization, Retail is Detail, USDA funding
By Joyce Barrett on January 22, 2010
Yesterday in Indianapolis I attended a symposium sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA Region 5) entitled “Green Historic Preservation Symposium: What Works, What Doesn’t, What Should Change” What I learned was that the “green-sustainability” constituency from the professional environmental sector knows little about historic preservation and the historic preservation community knows little about the [...]
Posted in Historic Preservation News, Our Blog | Tagged environment, EPA, green, historic preservation, term sustainability
