New Website for Heritage Consulting Inc to celebrate 20th Anniversary
Heritage Consulting Inc. is celebrating our 20th anniversary this September and will launch a new website. Throughout our history, we have posted to our website all our published articles, reports, newsletters, and many presentation handouts, so that clients and attendees at our training sessions can have access to our work. We have turned to longtime friend and Main Street colleague Travis Brown of The Relish Jar located in Quincy, IL to create a new, streamlined website for us. We have known...
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Experience Princeton NJ Volunteer Training
We are delighted to work again with Experience Princeton, a relatively new special improvement district (SID) with over 1,000 businesses and property owners in this handsome central NJ college town. The organization was formed in 2022 and has been diligently working for the last two years to provide services to local businesses. The organization recently applied to the Main Street New Jersey program for community designation, which provides them access to training services and competitive...
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Old City District Board Training
The Old City District, a 22-block business improvement district located in the historic heart of Philadelphia including the Independence National Historical Park. The Old City District asked us to provide Board training in September for board members in their first mandatory in-person meeting since the COVID pandemic. A Municipal Authority, this BID is 25 years old and provides a variety of cleaning, safety, events, marketing, and economic development services to this small-scale historic...
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Illinois Main Street New Executive Director Training
This June, 2024 we provided Basic and New Manager Training in Springfield, IL, for eleven new Main Street Executive Directors to orient them to their new jobs.
In our Introduction to the Four Points and the Eight Principles of Main Street workshop, we provided a basic overview to the National Main Street Center’s Four Point Approach™ and Transformation Strategies activities. We touched on the origin of the Main Street movement, the eight principles of Main Street, and what the four...
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Pennsylvania Downtown Center conference in York, PA
We presented again at the annual Pennsylvania Downtown Center conference in York, PA, in late June 2024 on Year Long Sponsorship Programs to a standing-room-only crowd. We enjoy speaking at this annual conference as we have for the last eight years. Our presentation covered why Main Street organizations should gather all their sponsorship opportunities for the year into one package rather than wasting time soliciting sponsors one event at a time. We showed three notable examples of year-long...
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