The NCDDA nominations committee of the Board of Directors has met and prepared the election ballot for the 2025 -2027 positions that are open. The election ballot link and instructions were sent out today. If you did not receive the ballot link...
More info2025 NC Main Street Conference
The 2025 conference celebrates 45 years of the Main Street program in North Carolina and the United States. Local Main Street programs and their public and private sector partners are creatively leveraging strategic economic development planning...
More infoLarge Cities Meeting
NCDDA is hosting the annual Large Cities member meeting in Asheville this year from January 23 -24, 2025. We have invited our colleagues from large city business districts in South Carolina to attend this year as well. Please contact...
More infoDowntown Day 2024
Join us on June 4 in Raleigh at the NC Legislative Building for Downtown Day. We will gather at 10am and visit with our state’s legislators to talk about the positive economic impacts that our downtowns have on our state’s economy...
More infoHistoric Tax Credit Training Opportunity
Small-Scale Development and Historic Tax Credit Training Series Join the NC Main Street and Rural Planning Center to learn how economic development professionals can take the mystery out of redevelopment and grow more local developers for your...
More infoDowntown Day 2023
We will be gathering at Young Hearts Distilling for Downtown Day this year on May 17 from 5pm – 7pm for a floating reception with a brief presentation scheduled for 6pm. Please RSVP Kim Anderson.
More infoAttend Downtown Day 2022
We are glad to be back in-person for Downtown Day! Please join us at The Raleigh Times on June 7, 2022 from 5pm – 7pm for a floating reception with a brief presentation scheduled for 6pm. Please RSVP Kimberly Van Dyk.
More infoSocial Districts Webinar
From Bill King, President & CEO, Downtown Raleigh Alliance and NCDDA Large Cities Board Member. Thank you to all who attended and we did our best to address as many questions as we could! The session opened with a great overview of the...
More infoRE-IMAGINE
On Tuesday, August 31, NCDDA met in Raleigh at the North Carolina General Assembly to share our recent publication titled RE-IMAGINE, with members of the House of Representatives and Senate. RE-IMAGINE focuses on the success of the State Historic...
More infoLeverageNC Sponsorship Opportunity
Leverage NC is a partnership established in mid 2020 of the NC League of Municipalities, NC Department of Commerce’s Main Street & Rural Planning Center, NC Department of Cultural Resources’ State Historic Preservation Office, and...
More infoNew LEVERAGE NC Training Resources
Leverage NC has many new resources that we wanted you to be aware of at https://www.leveragenc.org/trainings. On this page you will find presentations that can be downloaded at no charge and upcoming webinars that are available at no charge...
More infoLEVERAGE NC Webinar – What will events & festivals look like in the future?
COVID-19 has changed the way we do everything – including festivals and special events. Many events have been cancelled this summer and fall, but how will large gatherings and festivals look in the future? What are the safety precautions for...
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