Bastrop Culinary District - 2013
Bastrop, TX has loads of terrific downtown "eateries" and food-related businesses, all independently owned and operated. To see the full list of restaurants, farms, bakeries, and caterers, download the free smart phone app found here or visit Bastrop's tourism website here.
The Bastrop Main Street Program took on this project to support a downtown industry where restaurants and food-related businesses make up 11 percent of all downtown businesses and employ 20 percent of all employees downtown. To support this key industry, the designation of a Culinary District allows for support to those businesses through surveys, training in various topics, focused marketing to draw tourists, and producing events with food as the theme. An active group of volunteers works on developing the Bastrop Culinary District through these initiatives.
Click here to view the PowerPoint that was developed to explain the project, and click here to read the City Council Resolution establishing the district.
The Texas First Lady Project - 2008
Every new Texas Main Street is presented with a rendering of a preservation project that the community might be interested in completing. Bastrop's Texas First Lady Project rendering was presented in March of 2007, and the building renovations were completed in 2008 by Calvary Episcopal Church.
The building, located at 1022 Main Street in historic downtown Bastrop, Texas, is now the R.A. Green Mercantile, a shopping "mall" housing eight small specialty shops that feature art, jewelry, embroidery, gifts, herbs, photography, pottery, sculpture, and more. The renovations truly had an impact on the community's economic development, while showcasing the historic beauty of the building.
