Biennial Report to the 83rd Texas Legislature: Texas Historical Commission Page: 8
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COMMUNITY HERITAGE DEVELOPMENT
he Community Heritage Development Division works in partnership with
cities, counties, nonprofit organizations, and heritage regions to revitalize
historic areas, stimulate tourism, and encourage economic development
through the use of preservation strategies.
F I S I First Lady's Texas Treasures Award
In 2008, the agency initiated the First Lady's Texas Treasures Award program to
recognize and promote communities that have exhibited a long record of historic
S- preservation, economic revitalization, community development, and heritage tourism.
Established in coordination with the First Lady of Texas and our public and private
partners, the award honored the communities of Brownsville in 2011, and San
Angelo in 2012.
The Texas Main Street Program
I The Texas Main Street Program (TMSP) helps communities across the state revitalize
their historic downtowns and neighborhood commercial districts through historic
preservation and economic development. Since its inception in 1981, the program
has helped generate $2.6 billion in reinvestment in Texas downtowns and urban
-- 7- C neighborhood commercial districts, created more than 28,700 jobs, and established
more than 7,400 new businesses across 166 communities.
Volunteers have contributed more than 900,000 hours to their Texas Main Street
cities during the past 12 years, time that is valued at more than $18 million. During
a reporting period roughly equivalent to fiscal years 2011 and 2012, nearly $400
a million of private and public funds were invested in the downtowns of official Main
Street communities. This represents a 6 percent increase over the prior biennium.
During the past biennium, the THC designated Vernon and Victoria as new official
Texas Main Street communities, while Kingsville and Uvalde returned to the program
as re-certified communities. Assisted by a nearly two-decade long public-private
partnership with the Independent Bankers Association of Texas, all four of these
communities received the traditional visit from the First Lady of Texas to kick off
their participation in the Main Street Program.
At the end of fiscal year 2012, there were 83 official Texas Main Street communities,
serving more than 2.4 million Texans. The focus of the Texas program is generally
smaller (more rural) communities, with 84 percent of participants having populations
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