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The Panhandle town of Havana recently won a Florida Main Street designation from the Department of State. Now the community is re-envisioning the future of its downtown.<\/p>\n

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Historically, the tobacco trade fueled Havana. When the industry dried up, so did many of the local businesses downtown. The Florida Main Street designation means the community can tap into grant money to revitalize the district. Tony Lombardo is leading the effort. He hopes the program will fill the vacuum left by the tobacco industry and the Great Recession.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just not putting enough feet on the street, if you will. There\u2019s not enough tourists…community\u2026visitors coming to the town to keep the economy strong. Main Street kinda opens up a new world for us,\u201d Lombardo said.<\/p>\n

He hopes to attract more businesses to the old tobacco town\u2019s historic buildings.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople today, many of them are tired of the strip malls, the big box stores. They kinda want to slow down and step back a little bit. And by coming to Havana you do that. Almost every business we have in downtown Havana is owned by a family!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The group is hosting its first public meeting on the future of downtown Havana on September 6th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":17927,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[136],"tags":[1137,1570,1569,1568,1560],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHavana Wins Main Street Designation, Begins Reimagining Downtown - WFSU Local Routes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wfsu-news\/havana-wins-main-street-designation-begins-reimagining-downtown\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Havana Wins Main Street Designation, Begins Reimagining Downtown - WFSU Local Routes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Panhandle town of Havana recently won a Florida Main Street designation from the Department of State. 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