ALIVE AFTER FIVE!
Thursday, September 9, 2010 4-9pm
We would like to invite you to participate in the 3rd MainStreet Roswell Downtown is Alive After Five Event. We are seeking local artists, musicians and entertainers for this fun filled street fair event.
We worked hard this past weekend (Aug 21 &22) getting the buildings prepared. You can see a major difference already. We will again be working this coming weekend to fill in cracks so we can get ready to paint!
Below is an image of the proposed finished buildings.
Join the excitement as we welcome vendors from all over to celebrate the one of our top crops, the green Chile and it’s partner in flavor perfection- cheese!
Don’t miss MainStreet Roswell’s Farmers and Gardeners Market beginning Saturday June 26th and every Saturday through September 25th. The Market will be held on the Chaves County Courthouse lawn beginning at 7:00am till we sellout.
The New Mexico Economic Development Department announced Wednesday Roswell was chosen to be one this year’s Façade Squad communities.
The program began last year and is part of New Mexico MainStreet project. It awards two communities scholarships to clean up the faces of a few local buildings.
The Façade Squad project is largely volunteer-based and aims to motivate private property owners to renovate the façades of their buildings, according to the program’s mission statement.
Roswell and Lovington MainStreets were chosen as this year’s scholarship winners.
“We’re really excited about it,” said Dusty Huckabee, director of MainStreet Roswell. “It cleans up another façade in the downtown area and whenever we can clean up a couple of properties, that’s another step forward in the revitalization of downtown.”
Huckabee said he was not sure of how much in scholarship funds the city will receive, but said Roswell was chosen out of more than 20 communities in the state that applied for the money.
The plans are to completely clean up the outside of a building located in the 300 block of North Main Street.
“It’s going to be in the spring,” Huckabee said. “It will be on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday ... and we would like to get the youth involved.”
Last year’s pilot projects were in Santa Rosa and Clovis.
“It’s a good kind of volunteer effort to get the community to come together,” said Michael Moxey, spokesman for the New Mexico Economic Development Department. “It’s a great community effort.”
The prettiest little town west of the Pecos! - Will Rogers
MainStreet Roswell works to encourage, foster and stimulate the preservation of historic downtown Roswell, New Mexico. Main Street Roswell works with local government, property owners and merchants to rehabilitate and maintain buildings, while encouraging economic growth in the downtown area.
MainStreet Roswell members include business owners, property owners, banking institutes, local utility companies, realtors, TV and radio representatives and individual citizens.
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