Overview

Green DMV extended the H Street Corridor Small Business Sustainability Project over to Georgia Avenue. Green DMV partnered with the DC Main Streets Program in a collaborative effort to help revitalize Georgia Avenue. Green DMV provides free sustainability assessments to businesses on Georgia Avenue through the Green DMV Business Program.

The purpose of the sustainability assessments are to provide the business owners with achievable and sustainable business practices and procedures to help them reduce their carbon footprint and minimize their operating costs. Green DMV's Business Program implements business practices that are designed to complement existing standards such as the LEED™ and give businesses an opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to environmental sustainability.

GATEWAY Georgia Avenue Main Street Initiative (Ward 4)

Residents of GATEWAY Georgia Avenue have access to one of the Districts longest and most diverse commercial corridors. This row of shops, restaurants and professional service businesses are at the heart of the surrounding residential community.

Supporting a diverse community and serving as one of the District’s main commuter routes, Georgia Avenue features predominantely one and two-story establishments and apartment buildings surrounded by stable, middle-income neighborhoods.  Home to large employers, medical centers and libraries, Georgia Avenue is poised to become an even more successful area of the city.
 
DC Main Streets

The DC Main Streets program was created in 2002 to support the establishment and implementation of lasting, comprehensive revitalization initiatives in DC’s traditional neighborhood business districts. DC Main Streets' goal is to support retail investment in the District through the retention and expansion of existing businesses and the recruitment of new businesses.

Through the DC Main Streets program, reSTORE DC provides comprehensive technical and financial assistance to build the capacity of neighborhood nonprofit organizations (DC Main Street organizations) to assist businesses and coordinate sustainable community-driven revitalization efforts in their neighborhoods. The local DC Main Street commercial district revitalization efforts are organized and led by local volunteers and community development professionals. DC Main Street program grant recipients are competitively selected.

The DC Main Streets program is based on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s nationally proven model, which includes work in the areas of organization of commercial revitalization efforts, promotion of neighborhood businesses and business districts, design (physical environment) and economic restructuring (business and property development). The Main Streets approach provides local organizations with a mechanism to manage their neighborhood commercial districts and a structure to implement commercial revitalization activities that will achieve the stakeholders’ goals for the commercial district.

reSTORE DC

reSTORE DC is a division of the DC Department of Small and Local Business Development, supports the revitalization of DC’s neighborhood commercial districts and small businesses by:

1) providing technical and funding assistance in targeted neighborhoods to retain DC businesses, design and improve storefronts and streetscapes, and promote DC’s business neighborhood districts (reSTORE DC Special Projects and Services)

2) building the capacity of neighborhood nonprofit organizations to assist businesses and coordinate sustainable community-driven revitalization efforts.