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Main Street Lexington reports downtown gains in 2024; executive director to retire, successor named
Summary
Lexington — Main Street Lexington presented a year‑in‑review for 2024 to the Lexington City Council on May 15, highlighting marketing and design programs, volunteer activities, and a planned courthouse grounds rehabilitation.
Lexington — Main Street Lexington presented a year‑in‑review for 2024 to the Lexington City Council on May 15, highlighting marketing and design programs, volunteer activities, and a planned courthouse grounds rehabilitation. Executive Director Rebecca Logan said she will retire next week and introduced Jeremy Franklin as her successor.
Logan told council the organization launched a wayfinding portal tied to a QR‑coded downtown map, collaborated with Washington and Lee student consulting teams to collect visitor and foot‑traffic data, and sold more than $60,000 in downtown gift certificates in 2024 that help keep local spending in the community. Logan said the gateway triangle garden redesign was followed by work to rehabilitate the courthouse grounds; she said Phase 1 will move the Veterans Memorial roughly 25 feet north to be directly in front of the courthouse and that funds for more than half of the project already have financial commitments. She also described façade/awning and signs grant activity and a spring “beauty blitz” volunteer cleanup that included middle‑school students.
Logan announced she will continue as project liaison for the courthouse grounds rehabilitation after her retirement and formally introduced Jeremy Franklin, who has worked with Main Street Lexington for nearly two years, as the incoming executive director. Council members thanked Logan for her service and welcomed Franklin.
Why it matters: Main Street Lexington’s programs support downtown retail, tourism, and placemaking through grants, marketing, volunteer projects and design work; the courthouse grounds rehabilitation is a multi‑phase project involving public and private partners with already committed funding for part of Phase 1.
Next steps: Main Street will continue fundraising and pursue three grant applications for the courthouse grounds project; Rebecca Logan will remain as project liaison and Jeremy Franklin will assume the executive director role.
