DISPLAY AND MARKETING WORKSHOPS SET APRIL 7 AND 8 IN EUREKA SPRINGS

Mark Miller, Main Street Arkansas small business consultant, and Susan Shaddox, Main Street Arkansas interior design consultant, will hold workshops focusing on downtown marketing and merchandising display in Eureka Springs on April 7 and 8, Main Street Arkansas Director Cary Tyson announced today. Main Street Arkansas is a program area of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program.

Miller will present “Surviving in the Original Lifestyle Center” beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 7, at the Grand Central Hotel at 37 North Main Street. Shaddox will present “Visual Merchandising Displays: Big Bang, Little Bucks” at 9 a.m. on Thursday, April 8, in the Elk Street Church at 17 Elk Street. For additional information about the free workshops, contact Jacqueline Wolven at (479) 244-5074 (director at eurekaspringsdowntown.com) or Glenna Booth at (479) 253-9703 (ACE at cityofeurekasprings.org).

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.

Among the services and benefits ADN cities receive are access to Main Street Arkansas’s quarterly trainings, organizational assistance, limited technical assistance from Main Street staff members, and access to the Main Street resource center.

Cities currently involved in Main Street Arkansas are Batesville, Blytheville, Dumas, El Dorado, Hardy, Helena, Little Rock’s South Main Street (SoMa), Osceola, Ozark, Paragould, Rogers, Russellville, Searcy, Texarkana and West Memphis. Members of Main Street’s Arkansas Downtown Network are Pine Bluff, Heber Springs, Fort Smith, Eureka Springs, DeWitt, Sheridan, Morrilton, Walnut Ridge, Rector, Jonesboro, Siloam Springs and Crawfordsville. Other sponsors of the Main Street Arkansas program are the Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas and the Arkansas Economic Development Commission.

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.