Colfax Main Street Celebrates a Successful Year
28 Dec 2022
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The Colfax Main Street's Annual Report, released the last week of December, celebrates a year of 'normal' programming after the pandemic's interruptions in 2020 and 2021. Some of the successes mentioned in the report include:
- The City of Colfax won the Best Building Rehabilitation Award for Communities under 5,000 Population at the Main Street Iowa Development Awards for renovating the City of Colfax Offices.
- Nine new businesses started in downtown Colfax in 2022.
- Eight new housing units are being built near downtown Colfax; one upper story apartment is currently being renovated.
- Downtown Colfax is an attractive location for area food trucks. Food trucks visited the community around fifty times in 2022.
- Main Street volunteers were busy in 2022, hosting four large community events. One of which brought over 1,000 visitors to downtown Colfax.
To read the full annual report, go to the newsletter section on the organization's website.
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