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Main Street Roanoke Rapids: Connecting Community and Opportunity

The Roanoke Rapids Main Street Program is entering an exciting new phase of growth and community engagement. With strong community roots and support from local residents, businesses, and partners, we are building on a solid foundation to continue fostering a vibrant and welcoming downtown.

Main Street is about celebrating the unique character of our historic district while creating opportunities for economic vitality and connection. Our focus is on working alongside the community to preserve what makes Roanoke Rapids special and to explore new ways to strengthen local businesses and enhance the downtown experience for everyone.

In the months ahead, we’ll be sharing updates about events, projects, and opportunities to get involved. We believe that meaningful revitalization happens through collaboration, and we invite you to join us in shaping the future of our downtown neighborhood.

If you’d like to stay informed about Main Street news and upcoming activities, please sign up for our email updates please do so here. We look forward to connecting with you!

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Main Street America™ has been helping revitalize older and historic commercial districts for more than 35 years. Today it is a network of more than 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.

Roanoke Rapids is a North Carolina Main Street community, designated by the N.C. Department of Commerce Main Street & Rural Planning Center.  Main Street Roanoke Rapids is charged with administering the program at the local level and building public-private partnerships to spur economic development that achieves measurable results such as investment, business growth, and job creation.