Mission
To celebrate, highlight, and enhance Boyertown's artistic, historical and cultural heritage by providing the Boyertown Community with a welcoming and trusted resource for physical improvements, unique opportunities, and social interactions for businesses, residents, and visitors alike.
Vision
Boyertown is a growing, welcoming, vibrant community and an unparalleled tourist experience for everyone.
Building A Better Boyertown has been designated as a 2023 Accredited Main Street America™ program. Accredited status is Main Street America’s top tier of recognition and signifies a demonstrated commitment to comprehensive commercial district revitalization and proven track record of successfully applying the Main Street Approach™.
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Building A Better Boyertown's performance is evaluated by Pennsylvannia Downtown Center, which works in partnership with Main Street America to identify the local programs that meet ten rigorous performance standards. Evaluation criteria determines the communities that are building comprehensive and sustainable revitalization efforts and include standards such as fostering strong public-private partnerships, documenting programmatic progress, and actively preserving historic buildings.
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ABOUT MAIN STREET AMERICA
Main Street America has been helping revitalize older and historic commercial districts for 40 years. Today, it is a network of more than 1,600 neighborhoods and communities, rural and urban, who share both a commitment to place and to building stronger communities through preservation-based economic development. Since 1980, communities participating in the program have leveraged more than $85.43 billion in new public and private investment, generated 672,333 net new jobs and 150,079 net new businesses, and rehabilitated more than 295,348 buildings. Main Street America is a program of the nonprofit National Main Street Center, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
