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As many of you saw last week, The New York Times Sunday Review ran an opinion piece by economist Louis Hyman, The Myth of Main Street. Mr. Hyman presents a bleak choice for Main Street America: persist in hopeless efforts to rebuild your downtown or graciously accept a future of telecommuting for a distant corporation. We know, of course, that this is a false choice.
The National Main Street Center and the Brookings Institution have jointly authored a response to Mr. Hyman’s piece, The Reality of Main Street, that is featured on Brookings’ blog. We encourage you to check it out, keep up the dialogue, and continue to share with us just how real your Main Street is by using the hashtag #realmainstreet.
You can also download The Reality of Main Street as a PDFto share with your local media!
Thank you for your emails, messages, and posts over the last week—and for all the great work you do revitalizing Main Street every day.
Best regards,
Patrice Frey President and CEO, National Main Street Center
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