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About the Winooski Community Partnership

The Winooski Community Partnership (formerly known as Downtown Winooski Inc.) (WCP) is a tax exempt, non-profit organization formed in 2003. Its mission is to promote and support revitalization efforts and economic development in the Winooski Designated Downtown. This is accomplished through the collaboration of Winooski community groups, business interests, City and State governing bodies with regards to ongoing development efforts, the promotion of quality community living, the identification of community needs, and to provide aid, assistance, and other additional resources to ensure a vibrant downtown center which will benefit the entire Winooski Community.

Four committees, emulating the National Main Street Center’s “four-point approach”, to downtown revitalization, carry out WCP activities. The committees report to a board of nine directors who guide the organization in the fulfillment of its objectives.

The WCP was formed, in part, to help Winooski achieve status as a “designated downtown” under the Vermont Downtown Program within the Agency of Commerce. That status means the municipality and property owners in the Downtown Development District are eligible for certain State grants and tax credits, and that the WCP may obtain information and technical services from the Vermont Downtown Network, which is made up of staff and board members of several dozen similar organizations.

On a local level, the WCP collaborates with the City of Winooski, and other non-profit organizations such as the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce. To support downtown merchants and to alert the local and regional communities that downtown Winooski is again open for business, after many years of construction, the WCP hosted the first Winooski RiverWalk Celebration in June 2006. A Harvest Festival is scheduled for September 2006 and more varied and exciting events are being planned for 2007.