Kansas Main Street

Design Training at the Kansas Main Street Quarterly Training at The Bottle House — Downtown Ottawa!

We were excited to welcome Main Street Managers and Board Members from Junction City, Stafford County, Cherokee County, Kansas City, McPherson, Salina, Newton, Seneca, Independence, WaKeeney, Eureka, Ottawa, Belleville, Dodge City, Chanute, Russell, Valley Center, Sterling and Marysville, for the Quarterly training Design Workshop at the Bottle House in Ottawa.

They joined us on Wednesday as we dived into the design pillar of the Main Street 4 points, guided by Diana Staresinic-Deane, Executive Director of the Franklin County Historical Society, Joy Coleman, Tyler Holloman from Frontier Development Group. Kristen Johnson, Mallory Aye and Christopher Leitch, from Kansas State Preservation Office joined us Thursday.

A big thank you to everyone that attended, for those that shared their time and knowledge with us and Sara Stauffer, Executive Director of Ottawa Main Street Association for being such a gracious host. 🙌

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We chose Preservation Month to feature David and Kristi Wilson, who have been on a twenty year journey to bring back the historic Shay building on a prominent corner of Sterling Kansas Main Street. They have been methodically rehabbing the outside and first floor of the building using historic tax credits and preservation grants. The ROOMS grant program finally allowed them to do a whole building fire suppression system and begin tackling rehabbing apartments on the second floor. The first three apartments that are nearing completion are part of the ROOMS grant and they plan to move into one of those apartments while completing the fourth apartment. They will ultimately move into the fourth and final apartment when the last phase of work is complete.