Why Downtown?

 Downtown Monroe is a symbol of:

•  Community economic health
•  Partnership between the private and the public sector
•  Local quality of life
•  Local pride and Community history

It’s an important factor for industrial, commercial and professional recruitment.

Downtown Monroe serves as a good incubator for new small businesses-the success of tomorrow. Strips and malls are often too expensive for new entrepreneurs. Lower rents make Downtown Monroe a good location.

Downtown Monroe represents independent businesses which:

•  Support a local family
•  Support local community projects, such as schools, churches and teams
•  Keep profits in the City of Monroe.

It helps reduce sprawl by concentrating activity in one area.

Downtown Monroe is a major employer. Often when you count the number of jobs in a community you will find that Downtown is one of the biggest employers.

The infrastructure in Downtown Monroe is a major public investment. Only healthy businesses in buildings assessed at full value generate taxes that give taxpayers a return on this public investment.

A revitalized Downtown Monroe protects property values in surrounding residential neighborhoods.

Rehabilitation work in Downtown Monroe stimulates the local economy. Materials and labor for new commercial construction often comes from out of town.

Downtown Monroe is the heart of the community, and the site for government, arts, churches, and financial institutions.

Downtown Monroe is an important community space, where members of all segments of the community can meet equally for parades, speeches and other community events.

Downtown Monroe can be a tourist attraction and is the location of a community’s unique businesses and buildings, and asset worth saving.

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