Seguin Main Street adopts work plan
28 Feb 2024
City of Seguin, Downtown, Quality of Life
Seguin, TX, USA / Seguin Today
Cindy Aguirre
(Seguin) — With the completion of the downtown master plan, the Seguin Main Street Advisory Board has been determining its highest priority projects to complete first and they are incorporating these projects into a 2024-2025 work plan.
Some of the projects that were included in the master plan that the board wants to tackle first are the vacant building ordinance, a parklet program, creation of a downtown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone, downtown public restrooms, and improve lighting downtown.
“It was important to the Main Street Advisory Board, the downtown stakeholders, and City Council that the downtown master plan comes to fruition and does not just sit on a shelf,” said Kyle Kramm, Main Street & CVB director, “And our annual work plan will help us in this process, by taking this large plan with over 60 projects and breaking it up into manageable tasks.”
Not only will the work plan include projects from the master plan, but also projects that are ongoing for Main Street and fresh new ideas, like hosting an available property tour, creating some new marketing initiatives to bring new businesses and new customers to downtown, and volunteer development.
Each project in the workplan has steps and dates for it to be accomplished and each board member is championing one or two projects in the workplan. Additionally, the city will be working to track its measurements of success to see if the work they’re are doing is having the impact the community desires.
The workplan has two overarching goals or transformation strategies. The strategies include:
1.)Downtown Seguin is the heart of the community, but the whole community does not come downtown. With the hope of introducing and re-introducing downtown to families of all types, we believe visitors will follow.
2.)Downtown Seguin offers an open environment for targeted entrepreneurs who add to the vitality of downtown Seguin.
Kramm says each strategy has projects that go along with the theme of that strategy to ensure that strategy’s success. The board recently adopted a work plan and are now hitting the ground running to get the projects completed.
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