Top Ten American Streets - Bath's Front Street Wins Major Award!

Front Street in Bath, Maine received a major award this past week - Our own Front Street was named one of the Country's Top Ten Streets by the American Planning Association! At Wednesday's City Council Meeting, City Planner Jim Upham said, "the Association chose Front Streetfor its combination of hardscapes and landscapes, its natural environment and its reflection of local culture and history." Front Streetis in good company with streets in Williamsburg, Milwaukee, Ann Arbor and Little Rock.

When people visit Bath, they are impressed that our downtown area, while appealing to visitors, was not created for visitors - it is a real, working downtown with historic buildings that house shops, restaurants, offices, galleries, and services that every dweller in a small city relies upon. This is not a manufactured place ala Disneyworld - it's where we all shop, meet, have our coffee and carry on our daily lives.

Major Awards like this are not earned by accident - - going back to the 1960's, dedicated citizens fought urban renewal that would have eliminated Front Street in favor of a wide pedestrian mall - - shocking! Progress continues . . if you visit Bath today, you will see major improvement work happening at our recently restored train station which is being transformed (and beautified) into a multi-modal transportation hub and you will see a new Hampton Inn rising from the Prawer Block on Front Street's north end opposite, the Patten Free Library.

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Terry Driscoll, REALTOR, Mid-Coast Maine Residential Real Estate - Allen & Selig Realty, Bath, Maine