Main Street will help the community deal with its agriculture base while enhancing heritage-based tourism utilizing its prime geographic location between Lincoln and Omaha. The new communities receive official recognition of their status during the annual convention and awards banquet of the Nebraska Lied Main Street Program in Lincoln on Nov. 2. Main Street assists communities in organizing, promoting, strengthening the economic base and improving the appearance of the downtown. It is a preservation-based economic development program in cooperation with the University of Nebraska College of Architecture, the Nebraska Department of Economic Development, Nebraska Department of Roads, Nebraska State Historical Society, Nebraska Community Foundation, Nebraska Rural Development Commission, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. These communities receive unlimited services from the state program in the areas of Design, Organization, Promotion and Economic Restructuring.
Associate communities receive limited services in the same categories.
Kimball and Plattsmouth were both associate communities.