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Downtown Clawson What’s Happening Downtown?

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Downtown

Clawson

What’s Happening

Downtown?

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Where, What, Why?

• Where is Downtown Clawson?

• What is the Downtown Development

Authority?

• Why do we have a DDA?

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Photos of Downtown Clawson

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A little history....14 & Main in the early 1920’s

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The Interurban

The electric train system ran from 1899-1931 and kept us connected

Looking south on Main

Street in the early 1920’s

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Photos of Downtown Clawson

The 1940’s

A bustling metropolis

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A victim of urban renewal

The late 1960’s the downtown decline begins

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The 1970’s

Another ‘modernized’ Clawson building

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How do we fix it?

Michigan Public Act 197 of 1975

National Historic Trust for Preservation

Main Street Center

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DDA

Michigan law to address downtown

revitalization

Tax Incremental Financing: focus existing

downtown taxes for downtown

improvement

Board of Directors dedicated to

downtown management

Michigan Public Act 197 of 1975

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The Clawson DDA

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Things start looking up

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National Main Street Center

An economic development program

A management philosophy

A model for proven success

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Clawson joins Main Street

Why?

A nationally recognized economic

development program

A focus on historic preservation

Ensures each downtown remains individual

and unique

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The Clawson Main Street DDA

Community Driven

Committees that share the work & the fun

Design

Promotion

Business Development

Organization

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Design

• Façade Grants

• Design Assistance

• Streetscape

Before & After with façade grant assistance

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Promotion• Cinema in the Street

• Fire & Ice with Spice

• Trick – or – Treasure

• Downtown Block Party......

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Economic

• Business recruitment & marketing

• Business Resource Center

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Organization

Fundraising

Volunteer

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Be a part of it...

Add your name to our

Little Black Book

There’s an opportunity

for whatever time you

have.

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It’s fun....really!

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Coming down the track

• Public art projects

• New landscaping

• Pedestrian crossing islands on 14 Mile Road

• New events!

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A place for you downtown:

Help choose the movie

Take photos

How about a YouTube?

Participate in an event

Recruit your friends

Have fun

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Stay in touch

Watch

downtownclawson.com

for the latest news

Facebook.com/downtowncla

wson

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Mission Statement

To ensure our downtown is a great

place to shop, work, enjoy and

invest while protecting and

enhancing our unique character

and history.