The wonderful synergy described in our original article, entitled An Historic Main Street Sees New Life: Middletown, Maryland Takes Off, has continued in Middletown, demonstrating yet again, that vitality can be brought to an entire town and surrounding area when new life is breathed into its main street.
Such synergy is not by accident, rather by design: it is the result of employing planning best practices specifically in community development and placemaking. This requires both direct and indirect investment (via incentives such as those found in the town’s Downtown Revialization Zone Investment Program), as well as a robust collaboration among government officials, state and local agencies, and community stakeholders, in this case enhanced and facilitated by Middletown Main Street.
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