Inspired by the shared belief that people and communities are the lifeblood of our great state, the Nebraska Main Street Network is dedicated to enlivening our downtowns as cultural and economic drivers for the future.
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The Nebraska Main Street Network is a Main Street America™ Coordinating Program. As a Main Street America™ Coordinating Program, the Nebraska Main Street Network helps to lead a powerful, grassroots network consisting of over 40 Coordinating Programs and over 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. Main Street America is a program of the nonprofit National Main Street Center, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. -
Take a look at what Nebraska's Main Street Communities have to offer! Shopping, dining, entertainment and professional services deliver a great experience for locals and visitors.
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The Main Street program isn't just about visible change, but tangible real change. You can see that in the vibrancy of our entrepreneurs and their businesses, the buildings that have been brought back to life, the public spaces that have been improved, and the sense of place that has been created through the teamwork between volunteers and local governments trained in the Main Street Approach™
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This year, we are adding a Statewide Business of the Year Award. Nominate your favorite Nebraska business today!
Nominate by October 11, 2025
The Nebraska Main Street Network partners with communities to transform and revitalize their business districts through educational programming and technical assistance. Fostering entrepreneurs, promoting environmental sustainability while ensuring equity and diversity, we help communities preserve local history and their treasured architecture. We're making history from history!
News & Events
By N. David Milder
For many years I have thought that older adults — those over 50 — represented a valuable under leveraged asset for many downtowns in cities with populations roughly in the 20,000 to 100,000 range. Given their increasing population size and financial power, I have written an article advocating the development of downtown older adult member communities arguing that they would facilitate much needed greater functional diversity and activation. You can read that article below.
I am very happy to share this article on downtown multifunctionality/ functional diversity that was recently published in the JURR, a British journal focused on urban renewal and regeneration. It reflects my most recent thinking on this subject, as well as my efforts to add some analytical heft to it while also getting more people to find it of interest and importance.
Here’s the abstract:“In the large downtowns in the US, the adaption rates and impacts of ...
