Mary Means is best known for leading the team that created the National Main Street Center. More than 1,600 towns and historic neighborhood corridors in 40+ states have successfully used the Main Street Approach to bring people back to their historic cores. Mary was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her small but mighty planning firm has helped communities and other public interest organizations with strategic plans that achieve strong public support. Her work has been honored by the American Planning Association with its 2018 Planning Pioneer Award, and by the National Trust for Historic Preservation with the 2020 Crowninshield Award, the highest honor in historic preservation.
Mary is the author of Main Street’s Comeback and How It Can Come Back Again, published in 2020. Of course you can buy it from Amazon, but why? Get your local bookseller to order it, or buy from https://store.bookbaby.com/book/main-streets-comeback.