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1 1 HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. ___
1 2 BY JENKINS and WITT
1 3 A Resolution recognizing and congratulating the City
1 4 of Cedar Falls for receiving the Great American Main
1 5 Street Award from the National Trust for Historic
1 6 Preservation.
1 7 WHEREAS, community leaders in the City of Cedar
1 8 Falls have endeavored over a fifteen-year period to
1 9 resuscitate the downtown business district of Cedar
1 10 Falls; and
1 11 WHEREAS, through the participation in the Iowa Main
1 12 Street Program, scores of buildings in downtown Cedar
1 13 Falls have been renovated over the past decade,
1 14 including storefront shops, restaurants, and a nearly
1 15 century-old downtown theater; and
1 16 WHEREAS, downtown Cedar Falls has been dramatically
1 17 transformed into a vibrant center of retail and
1 18 entertainment activity with nearly 100 percent
1 19 occupancy of commercial buildings and shops; and
1 20 WHEREAS, the City of Cedar Falls has recently
1 21 received national recognition for its downtown
1 22 renovation efforts through a Great American Main
1 23 Street Award presented by the National Trust for
1 24 Historic Preservation; and
1 25 WHEREAS, the National Trust for Historic
1 26 Preservation presented only five Great American Main
1 27 Street Awards to cities nationwide for the year 2002;
1 28 NOW THEREFORE,
1 29 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
1 30 That the City of Cedar Falls is recognized for its
2 1 extraordinary efforts to renovate the downtown area
2 2 and is congratulated for receiving the Great American
2 3 Main Street Award; and
2 4 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That an official copy of
2 5 this Resolution shall be presented to the Cedar Falls
2 6 City Council, Cedar Falls Community Main Street, the
2 7 Cedar Falls Main Street Development Corporation, Cedar
2 8 Falls Utilities, the President of the University of
2 9 Northern Iowa, the Cedar Falls Community Theater, and
2 10 the Cedar Falls Chamber of Commerce and Economic
2 11 Development Corporation.
2 12 LSB 7270HH 79
2 13 tm/cls/14
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