Downtown

Our Vision

The success of Downtown Monroe will be due to a lively mix of quality retail shops, professional services, restaurants, entertainment, and upper-floor residential space, providing a variety of opportunities for a distinct cultural experience. Downtown will retain a safe, friendly, small-town pedestrian-oriented atmosphere for residents and visitors while engaging a positive spirit enhanced by its distinct sense of place built upon its rich agricultural history and architecturally significant buildings.

The varied mix of retail and service businesses and continued expansion will strengthen Monroe's sense of community and quality of life through the cooperative marketing and promotion efforts of our Downtown

Our Mission

To recognize, revitalize, preserve, and promote the historic, cultural, social, and economic significance of Monroe's Downtown.

NC Main Street Community

North Carolina Main Street Community

Downtown Monroe is a North Carolina Main Street community, designated by the NC. Department of Commerce Main Street and Rural Planning Center. The City of Monroe is charged with administering the program at the local level and building public-private partnerships to spur economic development that achieves measurable results such as investment, business growth, and job creation.

Main Street America 2025 Affiliate

Nationally recognized. Locally powered.

Main Street AmericaTM 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, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.