ORGANIZATION
Premier Partner Main Street Clinton
Red Brick Roads
Outstanding Creative Fundraising West Point Growth Alliance
“Dogs Playing Poker” Fundraiser
Outstanding Marketing Senatobia Main Street
Five Star City Fest Rebranding
Outstanding Community Main Street Columbus
Education Campaign Recycling Program - Hitching Lot Famers’ Market
DESIGN
Outstanding Historic Woodville/Wilkinson County Main Street
Rehabilitation Project Polk’s Meat Market/Woodville Arts Park
Outstanding Public Biloxi Main Street
Improvement Project (TIE) Howard Ave. Redevelopment Project
Downtown Tupelo Main Street
City of Tupelo Alley Project
Outstanding Visual Merchandising Laurel Main Street
Guild and Gentry
Outstanding New Main Street Greenwood
Development Project Rail Spike Park
PROMOTION
Outstanding Creative Event Greater Belhaven Foundation
Bright Lights, Belhaven Nights
Outstanding Retail Promotion Vicksburg Main Street
Pure Imagination
Outstanding Image Woodville/Wilkinson County Main Street
Promotion Bicentennial Film
ECONOMIC VITALIT Y
Outstanding Business Main Street Greenwood
Retention/Recruitment Program Rehabit Greenwood
Outstanding Adaptive Reuse Project (TIE) Biloxi Main Street
Southport Line Restaurant
Laurel Main Street
Sweet Somethings Bakery and Bed & Breakfast
Outstanding Economic Impact Project Main Street Pascagoula
Menagerie on Main
Outstanding New Business Senatobia Main Street
Delta Steakhouse
SPECIAL AWARDS
Main Street Trailblazer Award Bill Raymond
in memory of Paul Coggin Biloxi Main Street
Merchant of the Year Bev Crossen
Downtown Tupelo Main Street
Main Street Heroes Sara Gardner (Aberdeen Main Street)
Virgi Lindsay (Greater Belhaven Foundation)
Mayor Andrew “FoFo” Gilich (Biloxi Main Street)
George Ewing (Main Street Clinton)
Chic Cody (Ocean Springs Main Street)
Leadership is Servanthood (Ripley Main Street)
Bill Edwards (Picayune Main Street)
Outstanding Main Street Director of the Year Judi Holifield
& Charles Beasley Scholarship Award Laurel Main StreetThe Mississippi Main Street Association celebrated
achievements of Mississippi Main Street Communities at the
30th Annual Awards Luncheon on June 13, at the Old Capitol
Inn in Jackson.
The awards luncheon honors Main Street directors, board
members and volunteers, and recognizes the most outstanding
downtown development projects from Main Street communities
in Mississippi. The Mississippi Development Authority, LPK
Architects, neonFROG, inc. and Renovations of Mississippi, Inc.
were sponsors.
Every dollar spent in this organization results in $80 of
private investment, the highest return on investment of any
economic activity in the state. Since 1993, MMSA has generated
more than $5 billion in private and public investment.
30
th
Annual Awards