Our Investors

Main Street Alabama Investors

REVITALIZER

GALVANIZER

STAKEHOLDER

PROMOTER

Alabama Mountain Lakes Tourist Association

Alabama Municipal Electric Authority

Alabama Power

ALA-Tom RC&D

ALFA Companies

Alice Bowsher

Central Alabama Electric Cooperative

Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham

Spire

SUPPORTER

Charles Ball

Jim Byard, Jr.

Paul Carruthers

R3L Engineering

Dennis Fain

Ellen Mertins

Charles Simpson

David Walker

Mary Helmer Wirth

FRIEND

Marsha Bankston

Courtney Bennett

Trisha Black

Brandon Bias

Clay Carmichael

Ernie Cowart

Elaine Fincannon

Jefferson County Economic & Industrial Development Authority

Tina Narremore Jones

Herman Lehman

Tanya Maloney

Kay Moore

Joe Sandner

Jennifer Schuette

Jo Jo Terry

John L. Thornton

Become a Partner

Thank you for considering an investment in Main Street Alabama, a statewide organization focused on downtown and neighborhood revitalization with an emphasis on economic development to bring jobs, dollars and people to Alabama’s historic communities. Main Street Alabama is the state coordinator for Main Street Programs in Alabama and is affiliated with the National Main Street Center, which was established in 1980 as a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The proven Main Street Four-Point Approach® helps communities to organize themselves for success, improve the design of their neighborhoods, promote their districts, and enhance the economic base of a community. Your tax-exempt investment helps to improve the places we live, work, and play.

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Quick Facts

The Main Street Approach is an important economic development tool for historic preservation in Alabama.

Main Street is a powerful network of linked communities.

From 2014-2023, over $1 billion in public and private money was invested in Alabama's Main Street districts.

Main Streets are prominent employment centers

Our Main Streets are places of shared memory where people still come together to live, work and play.

Main Street is a proven strategy for revitalization.

Property investment in Main Street districts, from 2014-2023, generated $35 million in taxes for Alabama's state and local governments.

From 2014-2023, Main Street Alabama communities reported a cumulative total of 4,530 net new jobs.

Main Street is a unique preservation based economic development program.

Main Street Alabama was launched in 2013.

Our Main Streets tell us who we are, who we were and how the past has shaped us.

Main Streets help keep profits in town

For every dollar Alabama puts into the Main Street program, $13.36 is paid back to state coffers in sales taxes.