About Us

Main Street Birmingham’s job description is simple: Growing Business, Revitalizing Neighborhoods and Empowering Communities.

The job, however, is anything but simple.

Growing Business

• Helping to identify available properties in MSB target districts
• Guiding business owners to financing sources and incentives, like the City of Birmingham's Economic Stimulus Loan Program
• Reaching out to existing businesses to encourage retention and expansion

Revitalizing Neighborhoods

• Fostering catalytic developments that demonstrate an area’s potential and attract future investment
• Developing focus groups and market surveys to help others find opportunities
• Seeking out corporate and community partners that bring passion, expertise and funding

Empowering Communities

• Empowering local businesses to work together to improve their environments through merchants associations
• Funding promotional and marketing efforts for target districts through Promotional Challenge Grants
• Fostering pride in commercial districts through programs like Birmingham in Bloom, which provides free flowers and landscaping in the spring and fall

Main Street Birmingham, Inc. (MSB) is a nonprofit organization under contract to the City of Birmingham to implement the BEACON program for neighborhood commercial district revitalization.