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Students enrolled in Roger Williams University's Historic Preservation, Business and Justice Studies programs worked collaboratively across disciplines to develop the first step in a Main Street revitalization process. This report provided guidelines to assist the community in establishing a Main Street Program in the Washington Park neighborhood in Providence, RI.

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There is an immense variety of privately owned businesses. They will be stakeholders because their businesses are located there, but they will also be assets in themselves in drawing people to the area. There is basically everything anyone could possible want or need in this area. There are two gas stations, a Family Dollar, a liquor store, a few sit down restaurants, numerous places where one can get a quick bite to eat, a frame shop, a clothing store, a pawn shop, a store with fresh produce (which is hard to find in urban areas), a store that sells sports uniforms, a frame shop, a lawyerʼs office, an animal hospital, two Laundromats, a record shop, a health food store, two cell phone stores, an automotive shop, and a karate school with an afterschool program. With such variety, it will draw people to the area and then give them other reasons to keep coming back.

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