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Casa Grande Main Street details events, budget and new downtown retail incubator at city study session
Summary
Main Street Executive Director Holly Nash briefed the council on the nonprofit’s events, partnerships, staffing and a planned retail incubator at 108 W. Second St., noting costs, revenues and a request for more funding or staff to expand programming.
Holly Nash, executive director of Casa Grande Main Street, told the City Council at a study session that Main Street runs most downtown events and programs with a one‑person staff and a 10‑hour‑a‑week assistant and asked the city to consider additional funding or staff to sustain and expand its work.
Nash said Main Street is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that maintains public art and historic features downtown, organizes the annual street fair and car show, the Downtown Halloween Stroll, Terminus Days and other events, and runs member support programs. She described a planned retail incubator at 108 West Second Street that Main Street will staff and operate in Year 1 and estimated startup costs of about $45,000.
The retail incubator, Nash said, will be fully staffed…
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