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What is the Freret Main Street Program?
The Freret Main Street Program is an economic development project undertaken by Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans (NHS) and the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization (NCR) to rejuvenate the Freret Street business corridor. It also seeks to serve as a small business information resource for merchants, new businesses and property owners in the area.

Focusing on the seven-block area between Napoleon and Jefferson Avenues, the project uses the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Four-Point Approach, which concentrates on:

  1. Design - improving the physical appearance of the street through the Façade Program, low-interest loans and financing plans, and architectural assistance for our businesses.

  2. Organization - empowering business and property owners in the area via the [Name of Group] Business and Property Owner Association. Currently, we are in the process of re-organizing our business and property owner association, which will include an Executive Steering Committee that will develop an annual work plan for the corridor. The organization approach also allows us to build strong alliances with other local and national organizations, including banking and financial institutions, community groups, corporations, schools and universities.

  3. Promotion - developing marketing strategies for Freret through the Take A Second Look campaign as well as assisting individual businesses with coordinating marketing plans.

  4. Economic Restructuring - finding ways to generate and increase funding for the area.







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