Sidebar by Marcia Darnell
Main Street – January 2007 – Colorado Central Magazine
During the last ten years, Saguache’s fortunes have waxed and waned. Businesses have opened, and shut. Sometimes merchants seem thoroughly discouraged, but occasionally there’s a real sense of optimism in the community, and everyone seems convinced that things are about to turn around….
Sidebar by Marcia Darnell
Main Street – January 2007 – Colorado Central Magazine
Lake City likes Main Street
Another small town in Central Colorado is on the Main Street wagon, and happy about it. Lake City, population 400, joined Main Street in February, 2005.
“It’s a great program,” says Executive Director Marcia Connell, “especially for a small town like Lake City.”
Sidebar by Marcia Darnell
Main Street – January 2007 – Colorado Central Magazine
It’s been around since the 1970’s, but it’s still somewhat obscure. The National Trust Main Street Center is a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The program aims to revitalize commercial downtown areas in cities and towns where malls, big box stores and economic hardship have left the main drag looking like a ghost town.