TIFFIN, OHIO – SEPTEMBER 26, 2024 – Tiffin-Seneca Economic Partnership hosted the 2024 Main Street Celebration and Downtown Summit on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, at the Chandelier Community Event Center. The event featured keynote speaker Jason Duff, Founder and CEO of Small Nation, and award presentations celebrating the successes of 2023 and 2024.
Donna Gross, Downtown Tiffin Main Street Manager spoke on Downtown Tiffin’s success highlighting the Main Street Approach™, new businesses, volunteer involvement, and how progress stems from persistence and pride in the community.
The event provided the opportunity to highlight community volunteers, building owners, business owners, and those who have dedicated countless hours to the revitalization of Downtown Tiffin. The 2024 Downtown Tiffin Main Street Award winners were:
- Chris and Judy Hafley, Anne Gase Achievement Award.
- Big Mike’s, Development Award.
- Spoke Life Cycle, Entrepreneurial Award.
- MST Pub & Grub, Business Legacy Award.
- Destination Seneca County, Main Street Director Award.
- Wild Bunch Wellness Bar, Golden Broom Award.
"Downtown Tiffin’s success is built on collaboration between our volunteers, merchants, local businesses, and many others. We're deeply grateful for everyone’s hard work in making these achievements possible." – Greg Dell, Downtown Development Chair.
Downtown Tiffin will be attending the Heritage Ohio Main Street awards ceremony at the annual Heritage Ohio Preservation and Revitalization Conference, taking place Oct. 15-17 in Newark, Ohio. Downtown Tiffin has been selected as finalists in four categories: Spirit of Main Street Award, Young Preservationist of the Year, Best Residential Rehabilitation, and Best Main Street Committee Project Award.
[pictured: Downtown Award Winners]
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About Downtown Tiffin
The revitalization of downtown Tiffin began in 2011, when a group of community members came together to form “Tiffin Tomorrow”, with the goal of promoting and encouraging economic development in Downtown Tiffin, and creating plans, programs and actions to ensure long-term vitality and prosperity. In 2014, the City of Tiffin contracted with SIEDC to act as the downtown organization and “Tiffin Tomorrow” came under the SIEDC (now TSEP) umbrella as the “Downtown Development Board,” which serves as the governing board of the downtown organization. In 2015, Tiffin joined Heritage Ohio’s Main Street Program. For more information, click here.
About Heritage Ohio
Heritage Ohio promotes economic growth through the preservation and revitalization of downtowns and neighborhoods across Ohio. Heritage Ohio is the coordinating agency for the Ohio Main Street Program and is the designated statewide Ohio preservation partner with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Through saving the places that matter we can all build a community and live better. Learn more about how to become involved by visiting www.heritageohio.org.
About Main Street America
Main Street America leads a movement committed to strengthening communities through preservation-based economic development in older and historic downtowns and neighborhood commercial districts. For more than 40 years, Main Street America has provided a practical, adaptable, and impactful framework for community-driven, comprehensive revitalization through the Main Street Approach™. Our network of more than 1,600 neighborhoods and communities, rural and urban, share both a commitment to place and to building stronger communities through preservation-based economic development. Since 1980, communities participating in the program have generated more than $101.58 billion in new public and private investment, generated 168,693 net new businesses and 746,897 net new jobs, rehabilitated more than 325,119 buildings, and levered over 33.7 million volunteer hours. Main Street America is a nonprofit subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. For more information, visit mainstreet.org
