Bringing Main Street program to Cheney

Between 40-50 community members gathered at Cheney’s City Hall auditorium June 25 to talk about what can be done to revitalize the city’s downtown — and how the state and other communities can help.

The meeting, hosted jointing by the city’s planning department and the Cheney Merchants Association, featured a presentation on the Washington State Main Street Program. The state program, an offshoot of the national Main Street program, currently has been used by 32 cities in the state, many with populations approximately the size of Cheney’s, 10,000 – 20,000 people.

The program’s state coordinato...