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Entries for May 2010
Release Date: May 25, 2010 10:55 
Over the course of the last several weeks, the Michigan Main Street Center @ MSHDA (MMSC) has been receiving applications for communities to join the Michigan Main Street program. Just before the cut-off at 4pm on Friday, May 7, we had a flurry of applications come in – the last being...
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Release Date: May 18, 2010 07:28
Main Street is truly a grassroots, community and volunteer driven strategy encouraging economic development through historic preservation. We tell our communities that it can also be said that Main Street is based on a grassroots, community and volunteer driven strategy encouraging historic preservation through economic development...
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Release Date: May 11, 2010 08:08 
Guest Blogger Brian McGrain: This past weekend, I came across a new report released by the Brookings Institution, entitled The State of Metropolitan America. Through analysis of available demographic data from the past decade, the report seeks to “portray the demographic and social trends shaping the nation’s essential economic and societal units—its large metropolitan areas—and discuss what they imply for public policies to secure prosperity for these places and their populations.” While there are many interesting findings among the data...
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