October 29, 2015
Lea Community Foundation for the Arts (LFCA) announces the much-anticipated re-opening of the Historic Lea Theatre in downtown Lovington. The first official movie showing will be Friday, October 30 at 7 pm. LCFA will be hosting “Halloweekend” in conjunction with Lovington MainStreet’s Halloween On the Plaza event. During this time, the…
August 26, 2015
New Mexico MainStreet and our partners will present our Building Creative Communities Conference in November at the La Fonda in Santa Fe, registration is already open. Join us for an outstanding gathering that explores How Our Cultural Landscape Drives Our Community Economic Development Goals; Building Communities Not Audiences; Revitalizing Places, Culture…
July 6, 2015
Carlsbad’s Halagueno Arts Park held its grand opening gala Tuesday, July 2, after months of construction, partially funded by an $80,000 New Mexico MainStreet Capital Outlay Grant. This grant served as a catalyst for the project and was leveraged to attain another $155,000 from the City of Carlsbad for construction…
June 23, 2015
Santa Fe, NM – Today, Governor Susana Martinez and Economic Development Secretary Jon Barela announced that the New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD) is awarding the Silco Theater in Silver City, and the El Morro Theater in Gallup $100,000 each as part of the Historic Theater Initiative. The Economic Development’s…
June 10, 2015
Roswell Main Street Executive Director Position Announcement MainStreet Roswell seeks a dynamic Main Street Executive Director to lead its downtown revitalization effort in close conjunction with its board of directors. This 25 year old Main Street organization is located in Roswell, New Mexico, a community of approximately 50,000 located in…
June 4, 2015
Bacon cheese burgers, chile relleno bites, smoked baby back ribs, chili, steak sliders, Reuben sandwich care packages, and campfire bread pudding. Harding County MainStreet EDC showcased the region’s best chefs to demonstrate that culinary temptations will round up the county and get folks in the mood to explore the economic challenges and opportunities analyzed…
June 1, 2015
Jeff Mitchell, Director, and Gillian Joyce, Research Scientist, with UNM’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research presented their Community Economic Assessment to MainStreet Truth or Consequences last week. The town’s challenges of an aging population, low incomes and lack of jobs are offset by opportunities for further growth in the…
May 6, 2015
<<<<UPDATE – The Grand Opening has been postponed to May 29>>>> Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op began with a simple idea: create a brewery and taproom in Los Alamos as a place for the community to gather and enjoy great, locally brewed beer. We wanted to create a place for the…
May 1, 2015
New Mexico MainStreet has opened up the application process for new Frontier Communities. You can download the Frontier Communities Initiative Narrative and Application on our NMMS website under the Resources heading at the following link: http://nmmainstreet.org/resources.php The purpose of the Frontier Communities Initiative is to provide community economic development support to rural communities…
April 29, 2015
Creativity and Preservation can certainly exist we all know this and have seen examples. They both can also be odd fellows and cause a certain amount of friction when mixed together. Sometimes the unthinkable (altering or removing historic fabric) can lead to the greater good for a historic building. While…
