For Businesses

Cambridge Main Street believes in small businesses and the difference they can make for our community.  Our organization's mission is focused squarely on the goal of drawing customer traffic to our downtown district.

 

Thinking about opening a shop, restaurant, or office in our downtown?  Please don't hesitate to get in touch.  We would love to help.  Here are some of the ways Cambridge Main Street supports small businesses in our downtown.

 

MARKET DEVELOPMENT

 

Marketing/Media:

  • Maintain and update this website with free business listings.
  • Send monthly e-newsletter, Downtown News, to 3,000 recipients.
  • Deliver one-page Weekend Roundup to area resorts, hotels and B&Bs.
  • Prepare media releases publicizing upcoming events and news about downtown.
  • Operate Facebook fan page with more than 4,000 "likes".

 

Events:

  • Monthly Second Saturdays, 5-9 pm
  • Summer Sendoff: Third Saturday of September
  • Old-Fashioned Christmas, Second Saturday of December
  • The Taste of Cambridge: Second Saturday in July

 

Cambridge Main Street also delivers marketing and other support services to events run by individual businesses and organizations downtown.  See the full downtown calendar of events here.

 

Promotions/Advertising

 

  • Facilitate cooperative advertising by downtown businesses, often at discounted non-profit rates.
  • Coordinate cooperative planning for holiday and other seasonal promotions.

 

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

 

Access to State Loans/Programs

 

The following state programs give priority attention to applications from businesses in Main Street districts like ours:

  • Be Smart: Energy Efficiency Loans
  • Neighborhood Business Works Loans
  • Sustainable Communities Rehabilitiation Tax Credits

 

STREETSCAPE DEVELOPMENT

 

  • Fresh Coat Cambridge: This ongoing effort began in June 2011
  • Flowerpot and hanging basket program
  • Streetscape cleanups
  • Maintain traffic islands and parking areas
  • Banners and holiday decor
  • Downtown Wireless Network
  • Façade Improvement Program (funding currently unavailable)

 

 

 

Thinking about Cambridge?

If you're considering opening a business in downtown Cambridge, get in touch and let us see how we can help. Drop us a line at
office@cambridge
mainstreet.com.