Statesboro Main Street among GEMS

City support, community partners key, says DSDA

Sadie Pierce, 7, gets up up-close look as Daniel "The Chalk Guy" Wair works his magic as the Downtown Statesboro Development Authority celebrated the arts during this past April's First Friday event. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/file

FIRST FRIDAY ARTS Web — Sadie Pierce, 7, gets up up-close look as Daniel "The Chalk Guy" Wair works his magic as the Downtown Statesboro Development Authority celebrated the arts during this past April's First Friday event. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/file

Not every Main Street program in Georgia has secured land for a community dog park, is in the process or rebuilding three homes, or is in an America's Best Communities award-winning town. Only Main Street Statesboro has all of those things. But 16 of Georgia's 94 Main Street programs are now Georgia Exceptional Main Streets, or GEMS. Since April, the program operated by the Downtown Statesboro Development Authority is one of them.

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