WINDOW DISPLAY WORKSHOP SET AUGUST 9 IN HARDY

LITTLE ROCK—Susan Shaddox, Main Street Arkansas design consultant, will hold a one-hour window display workshop beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 9, in the Main Street Hardy office at 203 School St. in Hardy, Main Street Arkansas Director Cary Tyson announced today. Main Street Arkansas is a program area of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program.

Shaddox and Mark Miller, Main Street Arkansas small business consultant, also will meet with business owners on an individual basis from 12 to 4 p.m. on August 9 and from 8 a.m. to noon on August 10 to discuss merchandising, façade improvements, marketing, traffic flow, and other relevant issues. For additional information, contact Main Street Hardy Executive Director Kim Wilson at (870) 856-3571.

Main Street Arkansas provides technical assistance and design services to help create economic development in the state’s downtown areas. The Main Street approach to downtown revitalization focuses on four areas: design, economic restructuring, organization and promotion.

Cities currently involved in Main Street Arkansas are Batesville, Blytheville, Dumas, El Dorado, Hardy, Harrison, Helena, North Little Rock, Osceola, Ozark, Paragould, Rogers, Russellville, Searcy, Texarkana and West Memphis. Members of Main Street’s Arkansas Downtown Network are Pine Bluff, Little Rock’s South Main Street, Heber Springs, Fort Smith and Eureka Springs. Other sponsors of the Main Street Arkansas program are the Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas and the Arkansas Department of Economic Development.

The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program is the agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage responsible for the identification, evaluation, registration and preservation of the state’s cultural resources. Other agencies in the department are the Arkansas Arts Council, the Delta Cultural Center in Helena, the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, the Old State House Museum, the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission and the Historic Arkansas Museum.