Picayune Main Street, Inc. invites you to join us, a group of volunteers, who participate in and work to advance a new vision for our community. This vision encompasses renewed and thriving retail and service businesses, professional and government offices, and restaurants. Our vision includes downtown revitalization, a new walking track for citizens, new lighting for our downtown area, and comfortable benches for sitting. A downtown area people feel comfortable to live, work, shop and play.

You can help make this happen. Supporters and volunteers-people just like you. Main Street Members are people who may or may not live or work in Picayune’s downtown area, but they are people who envision a place that is attractive, thriving and lively, active seven days a week. A town you can be proud to show off to visiting family and friends.

Your membership in Picayune Main Street, Inc. will provide support for the operational work of the organization. This support helps provide Main Street with a staff and the cost of office expenses, sponsor events, and promotions. Membership fees also support the activities of our volunteer committees: Promotion, Design, Economic Restructuring and Special Events. Membership support is a critical piece of the public-private partnership “pie” that is making it possible to achieve Picayune Main Street goals.

Main Street goals are high. We plan to move quickly to make our community look and work better. We want those who walk around our town to feel safe and comfortable. We want to make sure our small retail and large companies thrive and expand. Main Street wants to attract new shops, services, housing, and entertainment opportunities.

Join Picayune Main Street, Inc. today to help provide Picayune's citizens and future citizens with a well-lit, active, clean and safe community.


Picayune Main Street proudly sponsors the following Events & Projects:

Events:

• Picayune Street Fair- April & November
  

• Krewe Of Roses Ball and Parade
  

• Shop By Candlelight
  

• Christmas Open House- Live Nativity
  

• Spring and Fall Side Walk Sale
  

• Easter Egg Drop- Picayune Municipal Airport
  

• Tung Blossom 5-K Run

Projects:

• Shay Park:

  • Restoration of the two (2) cars that were donated by Ms. Lynn Crosby Gamill on behalf of the Crosby Family to place behind the Shay Engine has begun..

  • One is a Work-over Car and the other is a Hand Car.  Both of these cars were used with the Shay Engine from the 1930's through the 1970's.

  • A group of volunteers are doing the restoration while Picayune Main Street, Inc. will furnish the materials.

  • The 1928 Shay Engine will be presssure washed and painted black by the same group of volunteers known  as the Lower Pearl River Valley Railroad Association Volunteers.

  • Historic information signs will be placed on the Shay Engine and two cars.

  • The Picayune Civic Woman's Club Juniorettes will plant a flower bed in front of the fence, when the aforementioned projects are completed.

  • Shay Park fence is to be completed.

  • Completion  of these projects is anticipated in May 2008.

• Downtown Benches:

  • Markers are being made for the benches in the downtown area and at the Intermodal Center.  Picayune Main Street, Inc. has purchased a total of forty (40) benches for Downtown Shoppers and visitors over the past three years.  Fund raisers have paid for these benches.

• Historical Plaques:

  • Historical information will be engraved on plaques.  The plaques will be placed on historically significant properties in the downtown area.  Plans are to purchase twenty (20) plaques in 2008.

• Corporate Squares and Bricks:

  • Picayune Main Street, Inc. was commissioned by the Mayor and City Council to sell bricks and corporate squares for the newly constructed Intramodal Center.  Also know as the Train Depot and Greyhound Bus Station.  Picayune Main Street, Inc. sold fifty-five (55) corporate squares that are located in the foyer of the center and two hundred and twenty-two (222) bricks are to be placed on the back porch.

• Train Museum:

  • Located inside the Intramodal Center will be a Train Museum that will display artifacts from the history of the Lower Pearl River Railroad, Owned by the Crosby Family.  Picayune Main Street, Inc. will work with Gary Herring and Rick Cagle to get the design for the museum and also will assist with document each artifact for the museum.

• Green Space:

  • Green space design is underway with the assistance of the CDBG Downtown Revitalization Grant through MDA. 
    New green space design will be located at:

    • The Intramodal Center

    • he Randy Scheel Clock on South Main at West Canal

    • A shrub and flower bed on West Canal beside Picayune Tire

    • A flower bed on the corner of West Canal and Palestine Road.

• Brochures:

  •  Picayune Main Street, Inc. member's brochures will take on a new,one-handed design for 2008.

• Tear Sheets:

  • Fifty-thousand (50,000) Pearl River County Tourism tear sheets will be printed just in time for the Summer Travelers.  This is a county-wide project by the Pearl River CountyTourism Council and Picayune Main Street, Inc.

• Other Projects:

  • Picayune Main Street, Inc. continues to assist with moving Picayune forward by assisting with the formation of the New Greater Picayune Arts Council, (GPAC.)

  • New lampposts in our downtown area has been completed.

  • Collectible Christmas Ornaments designed after Historic Landmarks continues to be a popular item for the Holidays.

  • Railroad parking lot for our downtown shoppers