<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Congratulations Poteau. Welcome back!<br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Kelli Yadon" <Kelli.Yadon@okcommerce.gov><br><b>To: </b>mainstreettowns@lists.onenet.net<br><b>Cc: </b>"HDP Poteau" <historicdowntownpoteau@gmail.com><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, April 27, 2018 3:28:14 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[MainstreetTowns] FW: new town announcement - poteau.docx<br><div><br></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>This was released to the statewide media this afternoon! Welcome back, Poteau!!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Donald Hackler
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 27, 2018 2:00 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> new town announcement - poteau.docx</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Contact: Buffy Hughes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Oklahoma Main Street Center</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Phone: (405) 815-6552</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Email:
<a href="mailto:Buffy.hughes@OKcommerce.gov" target="_blank">Buffy.hughes@OKcommerce.gov</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>For Immediate Release</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>April 27, 2018</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Oklahoma Main Street Center Announces 2018 New Town Selection</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>(Oklahoma City, Okla.) –
</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The Oklahoma Main Street Center announced today that Poteau, Okla., is the newest addition to the Oklahoma Main Street Program for 2018. Historic Downtown Poteau rejoins the program
at the associate level. This brings the total number of participants in the state to 31, including three urban areas and three associate programs.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>“The Oklahoma Main Street Center is happy to welcome Poteau back into the state Main Street program,” said Oklahoma
Main Street Center Director Buffy Hughes. “Poteau has a rich a history, exciting festivals, and a vibrant local community. Located near Wister State Park and other popular tourist destinations, downtown Poteau boasts many historic buildings, shops, cafés and
restaurants. We look forward to a bright future together as we build on what has been, showcase what is, and explore what is yet to come.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The Main Street Program is a comprehensive revitalization effort that provides communities with tools to improve their historic central and neighborhood business district areas.
The Oklahoma Main Street program serves as the state coordinating program for Main Street America, a program of the National Main Street Center, Inc. The Oklahoma Department of Commerce oversees the state Main Street Program.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>“I am proud the downtown organization has decided to return to the Oklahoma Main Street Program,” said Poteau Mayor Jeff Shockley. “The leadership and education provided by
Oklahoma Main Street is invaluable. Our hope is this decision will advance our local organization to the next level.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The associate level is a two-year endeavor to build capacity toward operation of the fully designated Main Street program. Poteau will have access to limited Main Street services
including training and technical assistance for preservation-based commercial district revitalization, as well as have limited Main Street requirements. The goal of the associate level is to work toward building capacity to build the organization that will
lead the community into more successful downtown development.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Programs operating at the under 5,000 (population) associate level are not required to have paid staff but must have a volunteer who can dedicate 20 hours a week to the program.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The associate level will also operate with a volunteer board of directors, much like the fully recognized programs.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Poteau will receive leadership training for their program manager and board of directors, as well as training in the nationally recognized Four-Point Main Street approach of
organization, promotion, design and economic vitality, Hughes added. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>According to latest figures, Oklahoma Main Street communities have generated more than $1.68 million in total public and private reinvestment, created more than 18,650 new
jobs and helped in the development of more than 5,400 new or expanded small businesses.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>For more information about the Oklahoma Main Street Program, please call (405) 815-6552 or visit OKcommerce.gov/mainstreet.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>About Main Street America</span></b><span lang="EN" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Main Street America has been helping revitalize older and historic commercial districts for more than 35 years. Today it is a network of more than 1,600 neighborhoods
and communities, rural and urban, who share both a commitment to place and to building stronger communities through preservation-based economic development. Main Street America is a program of the nonprofit National Main Street Center, Inc., a subsidiary of
the </span><a href="http://www.savingplaces.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN">National Trust for Historic Preservation</span></a><span lang="EN" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'></span></p>
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