Renaissance/Main Street Paintsville’s mission is to create a long-range plan through the Renaissance Kentucky program for the development of the downtown area of Paintsville as a vital part of the community. The Main Street Program is based on a four-point approach developed by the National Main Street Center, a division of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The four components of the program are:

    * Organization
    * Promotion
    * Design
    * Economic Restructuring

The goal of this program is to encourage downtown revitalization and economic development within the context of historic preservation.

There are many reasons for revitalizing a downtown, but once the process has begun, communities note positive changes such as:

    * Renewed confidence in the downtown through an improved image.
    * New job opportunities through the attraction of new businesses and strengthened service/retail markets.
    * Savings in tax dollars. Revitalization stabilizes and improves the area's tax base, while protecting the investments already made in the downtown.
    * A process that enables property owners to maintain historic commercial buildings and preserve an important part of a community's unique heritage.