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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">May 15, 2015</span></strong><br>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1B1B1B">Is your downtown succumbing to vacant and decaying historic buildings? To combat downward momentum, Rick Hauser, mayor of Perry, New York, and owner of In. Site: Architecture developed
Main Street, LLC, a community-based for-profit development corporation. Main Street, LLC recognizes the quantitative and qualitative benefits of reversing neglect and urges people to “put their money where their house is.”
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1B1B1B">On May 15, Rick joins CommunityMatters<sup>®</sup> and the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design™ (CIRD) for a 60-minute webinar. He’ll offer new insights into a longstanding challenge
for towns and small cities—getting the ball rolling to overcome vacancy in key downtown locations.
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across rural and urban divides. Watch the webinar recording. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Have an idea for strengthening community through art? Check out the National Endowment for the Arts’ Art Works program. Applications due July 23, 2015.
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