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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 23, 2016
State Media Contact: Jeannie W. Zieren, Director of Training and Information
Services
Email: jeanniewaller@msmainstreet.com, Tel: 601.941.5409
Local Media Contact: Kay Miller, Biloxi Main Street/Downtown Services Manager,
City of Biloxi
Email: kmiller@biloxi.ms.us, Tel: 228.435.6339
National Main Street ‘Refresh’ program
begins this week in Biloxi
First series of site visits to be held Feb. 24-25, 2016
BILOXI, Miss. ~ Biloxi Main Street District was one of seven national
programs selected as a demonstration site by the National Main Street
Center, Inc. to carry out community revitalization and preservation
based economic development techniques.
“Biloxi is just now, 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, recovering,” said
Kay Miller, Main Street Director/Downtown Services Manager of
Biloxi. “Downtown development has been in the works and the
‘Refresh’ project is beginning at the perfect time. Biloxi is soon to be
very up and coming in the very close future.”
Kathy LaPlante, Senior Program Officer with the National Main Street
Center, and Kennedy Smith, who is best known as the longest-serving
director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s National Main
Street Center, will be conducting the Biloxi Refresh program.
Biloxi has invited local leaders to take part in the first two-day
revitalization efforts, to plan and execute long-term strategic action,
and effectively measure the outcome for downtown Biloxi.

2. The two days will consist of a tour of the district and community,
strategizing sessions with city officials and will close on Thursday with a
Press Conference at Biloxi City Hall at 1 p.m.
The communities selected will receive 12 to 18 months of free hands-on
technical and community assistance from experts nationwide, funded
by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the National Trust
for Historic Preservation.
For more details of the nationwide refresh project and its upcoming
role in the City of Biloxi, visit preservationation.org/mainstreet or
mainstreetbiloxi.com.
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Biloxi Main Street is a designated program of the Mississippi Main Street
Association and a nationally accredited program of Main Street America.
For more information, contact Biloxi Main Street at 228-435-6339 or visit
www.mainstreetbiloxi.com.
The Mississippi Main Street Association is an economic development program
based in historic preservation. MMSA is a member of the National Main Street
Center and a program of the Mississippi Development Authority with many allied
partners and investors. MMSA provides training and technical assistance based on
the Main Street Four-Point Approach® - Organization, Promotion, Design and
Economic Vitality - to 56 Main Street communities and network members in the
state. Since 1993, MMSA has provided more than $4 billion in public and private
re-investment back into Main Street communities. For more information, visit
www.msmainstreet.com.
Main Street America™ has been helping revitalize older and historic commercial
districts for more than 35 years. Today it is a network of more than 1,600
neighborhoods and communities, rural and urban, that share both a commitment
to place and to build stronger communities through preservation-based economic
development. Main Street America is a program of the National Main Street Center,
a nonprofit subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. For more
information, visit www.preservationnation.org/main-street.
Developing Mississippi's Downtowns
www.msmainstreet.com
A Program of:

3. Mississippi Main Street Investors and Allied Members
Platinum
BancorpSouth * BP America * Entergy Mississippi * Mississippi Power
Gold
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi * Hancock Bank * Health Management Associates – MS Division * Irby Electrical Distributor *
Renasant Bank * Sanderson Farms * St. Dominic Health Services * Trustmark National Bank
Silver
Atmos Energy * Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell, & Berkowitz, PC * Barksdale Management Corp. * Biloxi Regional Medical Center *
Blossman Gas * BKD LLP * Randy Burchfield * Business Communications Inc. * Business Interiors * Cadence Bank * Caterpillar, Inc. *
Charter Bank * Citizens Bank of Philadelphia * Clear Channel Radio * Coast Coca-Cola Bottling Co. * Coca-Cola Bottling Works of Corinth &
Tupelo * Compton Engineering * Cooke Douglass Farr Lemons * Cooper Tire and Rubber Company* Cowboy Maloney's Electric City *
CREATE Foundation * EastGroup Properties *Farmers & Merchants Bank - Baldwyn * First Commercial Bank * First State Bank * Foundation
for the MidSouth * Horne LLP * Laws Construction * Merchants & Marine Bank * Metropolitan Bank * Mississippi Export Railroad * Mitchell
Distributing Co. * Neel-Schaffer * North Mississippi Health Services * Parkway Properties, Inc. * The Peoples Bank in Biloxi * Peoples Bank
of Ripley * B. Plunkett, Inc. * Regions Bank * Robinson and Associates * Roy Anderson Corporation * R.W. Reed Co. * Ross and Yerger,
Inc.-Tupelo * SouthGroup Insurance Services * StateStreet Group *Structural Steel Services, Inc. * The Taylor Group * Tellus Operating
Group * University of Mississippi Medical Center * Venture Technologies * Waggoner Engineering * Yates Construction
Bronze
William H. Andrews * David E. Brevard * Balch & Bingham * Estabrook Toyota * First Bank and Trust * Gaddis Farms, Inc. * Gaddis &
McLaurin * Gaddis & McLaurin Gin * Gannett Foundation/The Clarion-Ledger Media Group * Hailey McNamara * Harper, Rains, Knight and
Company * Long Wholesale Distributors * Michael T. McRee * Merchants and Planters Bank * MidState Construction * Mississippi Baptist
Health Systems * Phelps Dunbar, LLP * Philips Day-Brite * Kenneth P'Pool * R & B Land Company * Suzanne M. Smith * TEC * Viking
Investments
The Electric Building | 308 East Pearl Street, Suite 101 | Jackson, MS 39201
601-944-0113 | 601-353-3469 Fax | www.msmainstreet.com
District Office
P. O. Box 445
Columbus, MS 39703
662-364-0435
District Office
2515 Demaret Dr.
Gulfport, MS 39507
228-365-9090
District Office
426 Northpointe Lake Dr.
Oxford, MS 38655
601-941-5409
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