MAINSTREET UNSCRIPTED — EP. 6 - Downtown Revitalization

Holly is away at conferences for Main Street, While she is away Stephanie, Main Street's Administrative Assistant, is co-hosting.

WHAT WE’RE EXCITED ABOUT

• Casa Grande’s Got Talent
• Third Thursday
• Brief conversation, not calendar rundown
• More events: cgmainstreet.org

VOLUNTEERS

• Event season needs volunteers
• Service hours where applicable

STEPHANIE’S STORY - FROM VOLUNTEER TO MAIN STREET

• Volunteer → current role
• How has your role changed as Main Street has evolved?

SPACE 108

What was the original concept? How has it evolved? What have we learned? What is it becoming now?

• “What characteristics seem to give someone the best chance of succeeding in an environment like Space 108?”
• Where do new retailers struggle?
• Business education / pathway to business
• What makes Space 108 different?
• Who are WE looking for?

DOWNTOWN NOW

What is actually changing downtown right now?

• The Spott
• Wonder Bar changes — only confirmed factsu
• New blood / new opportunities
• Terminal/new businesses Sunshine Girls/Terminal 318 Co-Working Space/JF Brown Hall

CLOSE

cgmainstreet.org | @CGMAINSTREET

Music: Summer Holiday Dance Pop

License Code: ASLC-48BEF0AF-211994EEAE

What’s Up Downtown?

• Casa Palomino had their soft opening this week, and will have their grand opening on June 15th!
• Pillar Tattoo has spaces for rent—office, tattoo, makers space.
• Other Downtown businesses offering events, so head downtown!

Current Events or Programs Available

Main Street

• Books & Brews on June 25th, and the 4th Thursday of each month. At Casa Collective, 6pm-7:30pm. Bring-Your-Own-Book Club with no assigned reading. Monthly themes.. June’s theme is “Current Read”. Happy Hour pricing for all those attending who show their bookmark!
• Main Street summer reading program
  • Today through September 5th. Every 30 minutes of reading = a prize.
  • Ages 4-14

CG Books, Movies & More

• June & July: buy any book and receive a free cookbook for equal or less value.
• Spend 45.00 and receive a complementary book bag

ArtMobile

• Summer Clay Creations: Youth Pottery Classes. From June until July 9th, Wed & Thurs for $10 per class. Ages 5-12, and 13-18. Visit artmobilevan.org
• June 20th: ArtMobile’s Ever-Evolving FLASH SALE fundraiser 10am-2pm. Costs range from 10-cents to $5. Free Art Kit with every purchase of $5 or more.
  • Art Supplies, Ceramics, Craft books, etc.

Casa Collective

• BINGO every week, different themes. June 18th is Disney BINGO.
• June 25th Paint and Sip with Wildflower Collective. $45 at 6:30pm

www.casacollectiveaz.com

Pour Therapy

• Brunch on weekends: Saturday 9am-1pm, Sunday: 9am-3pm
• Taco Tuesday: $4 tacos, $6 margaritas. Follow on Social Media for weekly updates!
• Whiskey Wednesday: $45 for an order of wings, and a flight of whiskey with three selected whiskeys. Whiskey selection changes each week.
  • Last week was Whistepig Piggyback, Whistlepig Small Batch, and Whistelepig Snout to Tail.
  • This week was: Old Forester 1920, Four Roses Small Batch, Rabbit Hole Cavehill
• Wine Not Thursday: $2 off 6oz glasses of wine, and 25% off all bottles.
• Live music on July 3rd—Mark Stone.
• Night Markets on the Second Saturday of each month. Tonight then July 11th.

Paramount Theatre

• El Encuentro – The Gathering on June 19th at 8pm. Featuring Los Komales, Los De La Letra, and more! $40 per ticket
• Wrestling event on July 11th. Tickets begin at $40, but go up higher for VIP tickets. VIP tickets include a meet and greet. Show begins at 5pm.
  • by Ramos Grand Enterprise (on social media)

Yoga Recovery Healing Arts Program

• Open Mic on the Second Saturday of each month at Heritage Hall. Sign-ups begin at 5:30pm, and event starts at 6pm.
• All Arts Open Stage on the third Thursday every month at The Landmark Event Center (301 N.. Picacho St). Event begin at 6pm. www.CGOpenMic.com

Casa Grande Guide

• Third Thursday - Beginning July 16th. Artist Showcases and Live Creations. Food Trucks, workshops, and bar. Visit www.CasaGrandeGuide.com

Music: Summer Holiday Dance Pop

License Code: ASLC-48BEF0AF-211994EEAE

Mainstreet Unscripted Episode 4: Collaboration

What's Up Downtown?

A collection of events for the month of May were discussed. For a list of those events visit https://www.cgmainstreet.com/index.php/event

Who's Collaborating with us?

For this episode we brought in Emmi Rakoci, the Artistic Director for the Black Box Foundation, a local community theater in Downtown Casa Grande. Emmi and Blackbox Foundation are community partners with Casa Grande Main Street that work directly with us to participate, enhance, and entertain at our community events. We dive into how and why Blackbox is not just a Main Street partner but an entity that really looks for how to leverage the opportunities created by Main Street to promote their foundation while providing fun and interesting entertainment for us.

We dive a little bit into some of the negatives of not collaborating and why and how it hurts the Down Town community as a whole.

Then we talk about some potential solutions and why all of us do what we do.

Music: Summer Holiday Dance Pop

License Code: ASLC-48BEF0AF-211994EEAE

Mainstreet Unscripted Episode.3 - Holly and Matt talk about Main Street America's 2026 Eight Trends for Small Businesses and how they may impact the Casa Grande Downtown District. The show outline is as follows:

Main Street America's 2026 Business Predictions

- K-shaped economy will push consumers to seek a good value

- Shifts in social media will push consumers to want in-person connections, and shopping experiences

- Increased opportunities and desires for small business manufactoring - Millenials and Gen Z will take the lead on spending trends

- New and increased opportunities for business ownership structures, specifically co-ops

- E-commerce will move back to brick-and-mortars, specifically direct to consumers businesses

- Less alcohol consumption among Millenials and Gen Z will push for new socializing opportunities not centered around alcohol

- The retail sector will take on the closed-loop system, emphasizing consumers' value of sustainability

If you haven't been to the downtown area of Casa Grande, a lot has changed in the last couple of years. Amazing new shopping oppportunities, restaraunts, and experiences are popping up all over the district. Casa Grande Main Street has been the tip of the spear for beaufication, events, and programs that enable and enhance the primary goal of econimic vitality. In this episode we talk about many of the experiences Downtown has to offer and how we are encouraging the revitalization of the area.

- - Economic Vitality - -

- Basic introductions of ourselves for new listeners

- Basic introduction of Mainstreet as an organization for new listeners

• Mainstreet Approach = ECONOMIC VITALITY overtime

- How Mainstreet has/does address Economic Vitality

• Beautification & projects

• Events!

• Advertising (AZ Drive Guide, Pinal Central, Chamber books, Visit Arizona, ABC15, etc.)

- It's a slow process, but it's working!

• New businesses in the past two years: RoseLuv, Lew's, Buhr's, Feed Right, AZ Native, The Shoppe, The Spott, Eco Nomad, Dolce Salon, Cass Collective, Pour Therapy

- Pour Therapy and Casa Palomino will be great game changers!

• Night life: BeDillons, Casa Collective, Pour Therapy, Casa Palomino, The Spott

~ BlackBox, Art Museum

Music: Summer Holiday Dance Pop

License Code: ASLC-48BEF0AF-211994EEAE

This episode we talk about who we are and why we are doing this along with some reports of recent activities and events on the horizon for Historic Downtown Casa Grande. We talk about our efforts to revitalize the downtown district through historical preservation, economic vitality, and beautification.