Main Street El Dorado is inviting area residents and out-of-town visitors to help develop a vision and objectives for the city’s historic downtown.
Beth Brumley, executive director of MSE, issued a reminder about the survey during an El Dorado City Council meeting on Nov. 9.
Participants have until Nov. 19 to make their voices heard by completing a community survey that will assist MSE in setting priorities and assessing what El Dorado and Union County residents and visitors — adults and children — would like to see in the Central Business District, which is one of the city’s major tourist attractions.
Brumley and Holly McDonald — executive director and executive assistant, respectively, of MSE — have said the survey takes approximately two minutes to complete and the results will be incorporated into a new strategic plan that MSE is preparing for 2024.
“… and also to help us recognize what we could do to grow our downtown to make it more inclusive for everyone,” Brumley told members of the El Dorado Advertising and Promotion Commission on Nov. 1, the opening of the survey period.
MSE partnered with the University of Central Arkansas to draft the survey.
“We knew the questions we kind of wanted to ask but we wanted to make sure we asked them in the right way and they are great to partner with and work with,” Brumley said.
The survey includes questions that gauge respondents’ top three components for downtown growth and revitalization; what they like most/least about downtown El Dorado; and “the most opportunity for downtown El Dorado to focus or capitalize on for the future.”
MSE launched a soft rollout of the survey near the end of October.
Brumley said participants who came to town during Airstreams on the Square, which was held Oct. 19 – 22, filled out the surveys.
The annual event is presented by MSE and the Arkansas Razorback Airstream Club and is part of a nationwide campaign to stage Main Street/urban camping events to promote the RV lifestyle and…
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