Why Should I Get Involved?

Murray Main Street is more than just another attempt at downtown revitalization. It’s an effort to preserve our heritage  in order to prepare a prosperous tomorrow.

How Can I Help?

Become a member of Murray Main Street -- Community members keep Murray Main Street running. We rely solely on memberships, donations and fundraisers to keep the program moving forward. No grant money is used to cover administration or overhead costs. All Main Street grant money is allocated to the city and county for streetscape and building improvements. This is why your membership makes such a difference. 

As a member of Murray Main Street you will receive newsletters; our annual publication “Preserve the Past, Imagine the Future”; invitations to our annual membership meetings, special events and activities; and active voting privileges in electing the Murray Main Street Board of Directors.  Most important, your support will directly help revitalization efforts of the court square.   

Your support is appreciated and we hope you will renew your membership to continue this on-going transformation of the downtown area.  With our new data system, you will only be contacted once a year for an annual membership request.  Please renew your membership or become a new member, today! Click here to submit your membership application.

Serve on one of our committees--offer your leadership by serving on one of the following committees:

Design – Getting downtown into top physical shape by preserving and enhancing its assets.

Economic Restructuring – Strengthening the existing economic base of downtown and finding ways to expand its potential and meet new opportunities and challenges from outlying development.

Organization – Building and operating a program that meets the needs and challenges of downtown revitalization efforts.

Promotion – Creating and bringing events to the central business district.  Marketing downtown’s assets to shoppers, investors, new businesses, local citizens, and visitors.

Purchase an engraved brick--as part of the downtown Streetscape Plan, Murray Main Street is selling specially engraved bricks.  Several areas have been designated for donor bricks.  Each of the following sections will have an engraved marker denoting the area:

• In Honor of

• Veterans

• Business

• Pets

• Community Supporter

The cost for a brick is as follows:

• $50 for two lines of text on a brick

• $60 for three lines of text on a brick

Note: 13 characters per line with spaces also counting as characters.

For additional information or to have an Brick Purchase application mailed to you, call the Murray Main Street  at 759-9474 or drop by the office.  Alternatively, you can purchase your brick right from our website by clicking submit an online brick purchase form.

Volunteer in the Main Street Office--volunteer one day a week or five, our volunteers have fun while knowing they are making a lasting impact on our community.

Serve as an Event Volunteer--maybe you can't commit to volunteer efforts on a weekly basis, but you can still help out. Murray Main Street sponsors or co-sponsors dozens of events each year. These events take hundreds of volunteers just like you.

Preach the Good News--of Murray Main Street that is. Tell your friends and relatives about us. We're helping return downtown Murray to its rightful place as center of community pride and we need your help to get the word out.

Where Do I Sign Up?

The Murray Main Street office is located: 

201 South 4th Street
Murray, KY 42070