Downtown Farmington, Great American Main Street Semi-Finalist 2026

Описание: The Farmington DDA is proud to announce that we've been selected as one of eight semi-finalists for the 2026 Great American Main Street Award.

Farmington is known as the ​“crossroads community” in south Oakland County, Michigan. Similarly, downtown Farmington’s bustling Main Street district is the result of the intersection between the community’s appreciation for its historic heritage and desire to embrace change. The organization plays crucial roles in capital improvement projects, including recently partnering with the city to finance the Farmington Road Streetscape Project and funding the renovation of public parks into universally accessible gathering spaces through crowdsourced campaigns.

Main Street Farmington aligns its cultural programming under a placemaking catalyst strategy, ensuring that its events and promotions calendar creates year-round opportunities for people to gather downtown. They leverage visitor and business data and provide branding, promotion, and professional development services to support small business owners. These strategies are working: Over 70 net new businesses have opened and the vacancy rate in the district has dropped to 5% since the program began in 2002.