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Welcome to Mainstreets Association of Almonte and Pakenham

Jan 1, 2010

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Events and Initiatives
What MAAP Does
The Main Street Approach
MAAP Committees
Opportunities with MAAP
Downtown Almonte
Downtown Pakenham
Community Links & Partners
Contact MAAP

MILL STREET MONEY
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What's New and Happening with MAAP

Almonte's burgeoning downtown business community featured in the National Capital Scan

The most recent issue of National Capital SCAN, Ottawa's excellent tech business newspaper of record, has a feature on Almonte and its burgeoning business community. Read the full article here.

Almonte and MAAP featured in the Ottawa Business Journal

Reporter Julie Fortier interviewed MAAP chair Elizabeth Swarbrick for her article "Small Biz Growth Helps Almonte Keep Its Soul" in the May 14 issue of the Ottawa Business Journal. Read the full article here.

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About MAAP
As two hidden gems of Eastern Ontario, Almonte and Pakenham have unique, historic downtowns with different strengths and attractions. MAAP is committed to downtown renewal using the Main Street Approach to revitalization. This exciting initiative allows these wards within the Town of Mississippi Mills access to support and resources aimed at creating vibrant, active central commercial districts and promoting both downtowns as great places to shop, work and live. The key to the Main Street/MAAP approach is revitalization from the grassroots up, engaging ordinary citizens, business owners, retailers, service and church groups, community organizations, arts and cultural groups, and local government in developing systemic solutions to create a healthy mix of businesses and residents in our downtown sectors.

MAAP Encourages Long-term Vision
MAAP is part of the Mississippi Mills Chamber of Commerce, and has been inspired by Main Street Middlesex. Middlesex has eleven downtown communities (ranging from 800 residents to 10,000-plus) involved in this process in south-western Ontario. All are building prosperity with new programs such as:

Matching loans for facade restoration
Image and brand development grants
Retail promotion grants
Streetscape beautification grants
Business attraction/retention grants and programs
Festivals and events grants

Visit the Web sites of a sample of other revitalized downtowns: Amherst OH, Muskegon MI and London ON.

MAAP believes that community-driven vision led by downtown stakeholders’ efforts is essential to the successful revitalization of Almonte and Pakenham’s downtowns. MAAP encourages long term vision and incremental steps to success for downtown revitalization programs and main street vitality. Revitalization does not occur with quick fixes and short-cuts. MAAP’s focus is a comprehensive program in order to keep main street properties occupied with prospering businesses. MAAP is harnessing the energy and efforts of local business people and other volunteers to make revitalization happen. Explore this Web site, get to know MAAP and join the effort! There are plenty of opportunities to help build our downtowns with MAAP.

Think You Know Downtown Almonte and Pakenham?
The downtowns of Pakenham and Almonte share similar heritage. Both downtown areas are located on the banks of Ontario’s scenic Mississippi River and both towns are part of the amalgamated Town of Mississippi Mills, Pakenham and Almonte are the Town’s commercial hubs and cultural centres. The creative, entrepreneurial and eclectic individuals working in these centres create a spirit of enthusiastic vitality and energy. The commercial mix in both Almonte and Pakenham reflect the variety of people who work there – retail, arts and crafts schools, design houses and studios, life sciences firms, fine-dining establishments, high-tech enterprises, recreational services, and knowledge-based businesses are all found within the two downtowns of Mississippi Mills.

The historic limestone Mill buildings within each downtown are vital to the redevelopment and heritage-centric vision of each community. As part of the Ottawa Valley’s Lanark County, they share remarkable natural landscapes. MAAP is committed to highlighting the natural beauty, architectural heritage, existing businesses and tourism potential to attract a growing mix of inhabitants and complimentary businesses to the downtowns.

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Downtown Almonte

Mar 4, 2007

Welcome to Almonte
Almonte is a community rich in eclectic individuals from creative, professional and other diverse backgrounds. These people collectively form the flavour of Almonte’s downtown. The personalities of new small business owners, long-established local business people, professionals in technology and knowledge-based industries and the large variety of arts-based professionals are what give the town flamboyance and bring visitors back to downtown Almonte again and again – many to stay for good!

The commercial mix in Almonte reflects the variety of professionals and others who work there – local services, retail, art and crafts schools, design houses and studios, health care providers, fine-dining establishments, high-tech enterprise, research and development, specialty food shops and knowledge based services are all found within downtown Almonte.

Victoria Woolen Mill

Equally important to Almonte residents is the historical significance of the Almonte’s architecture and main streetscape. These built features, along with the natural riverscape that runs through the downtown area, are key items for the ongoing and future promotion of Almonte’s downtown main streets - to locals, visitors, shoppers and potential businesses.

Almonte is a “hidden gem” – both literally and figuratively – as Almonte’s downtown is not situated on a main traffic artery or even on a main road leading through town. Yet main street Almonte sparkles and is worth the extra investigation and effort that brings people downtown!

In a February 2007 focus group exercise, Almonte residents identified the following themes for their downtown:

Downtown Almonte, Mill Street Merchants

Get inspired downtown
The Art of Living: Almonte downtown
Experience downtown Almonte: full of PERSONality
Experience downtown Almonte: where life imitates art
Explore downtown Almonte… to do business, to live life, to live it up!
Downtown Almonte: be a part of the art of it!
Downtown Almonte: perfecting the art of community
Downtown Almonte: Light your Muse!

And Almonte residents have identified the following points as key to downtown Almonte branding and signage themes:

Creative individuality
Almonte

Blend of personalities
Lots going on
Exciting surprises
Unique shops and businesses
Local existing services and businesses
Natural beauty
Tastes, sounds, smells
Life of community
Refreshing
Alive
Eclectic
Fabulous festivals
Puppets
Inventive
Innovation at work
Urban yet with the warmth of the country

Promotional organizers, and others involved in economic development and design in Almonte will be revisiting the branding of downtown Almonte. MAAP is looking for volunteers to get involved in these committees and keep the downtown revitalization process moving – please join MAAP and make sure your opinions are included!

For more information about what Almonte residents have identified as crucial to Almonte’s look and experience, please take a look at this report: Main Street Revitalization – Almonte and Pakenham: Recommendations on branding approaches and report on public input, February 2007. (Denboer/Lang & Beyond Creativity Consulting, Arnprior ON).

You can get a copy of the full report here.

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Mainstreets Association of Almonte and Pakenham: View my profile; MAAP believes that community driven vision led by downtown stakeholders’ efforts is essential to the successful revitalization of Almonte and Pakenham’s downtowns. MAAP’s focus is a comprehensive program in order to keep main street properties occupied with prospering businesses. MAAP is harnessing the energy and efforts of local business people and other volunteers to make revitalization happen. Explore this Web site, get to know MAAP and join the effort!