Friday, October 30, 2020

Tupelo earns nat’l main street award

TUPELO, Miss. - Downtown Tupelo Main Street Association (DTSA) has spent three decades transforming the city into a diverse area of economic growth and activity. On Oct. 30, DTMSA was honored, along with two other cities, as winners of the 2020 Great American Main Street Award, which recognizes communities their excellence in comprehensive preservation-based commercial district revitalization. Civic leaders joined the DTMSA staff at the convention center for the live streamed announcement and where the Great American Main Street plaque was unveiled. TMSA produced a video - ‘Downtown Tupelo: A Place For Dreamers’ - as part of its award application celebrating its uniqueness. The video won a 2020 Mississippi Main Street Association award for Outstanding Community Promotion. MMSA also honored downtown business BlairHaus for Outstanding Retail Merchandising and Mayor Jason Shelton as a Main Street hero. (Source: Daily Journal 10/20/20) https://www.djournal.com/news/downtown-tupelo-main-street-association-wins-national-award/article_7a9a4cc3-dc9a-594a-90f7-e7f8705147d8.html

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