The following press release via Belocal Georgetown
Finalists for the 2023 President’s Awards Program have been announced. For over 30 years, the awards program, sponsored by Texas Downtown (TXDT), has recognized outstanding projects, places, and people of Texas downtowns.
BeLocal Georgetown is a hyperlocal newcomer’s guide built upon the goal of connecting the newest families in town with the Georgetown locals Word-of-Mouth favorites. We have been selected as a finalist for the “Best Downtown Partner Award,” which recognizes a business that is positively impacting the community and contributing to the revitalization of downtown. At BeLocal, our mission is to ease our newcomer’s transitions and help them get plugged into our community as quickly as possible.
We do this by partnering with local businesses and sponsors to carefully curate a “yellow brick road” that will lead them to their new favorite places, activities, and people. Our guide encourages newcomers to become active in our community, support our local businesses, partner with our charities, and ultimately makes Georgetown feel like home.
TXDT was established in 1985 to connect and serve communities that are committed to downtown vitality. The organization is an independent, statewide nonprofit that represents cities and towns of all sizes, economic development corporations, chambers of commerce, local associations, small businesses, and individuals.
“I am thrilled that BeLocal is being recognized on a state-wide level for being such a great partner to Downtown Georgetown as well as the city at large. This is a highly competitive award program, and to be recognized as a semi-finalist is a big deal. We will find out in a month if they are the big winner, but they already are winners to us!”
– Kim McAuliffe, Downtown & Tourism Director, City of Georgetown
One hundred and fourteen entries were submitted in eleven different categories from communities across the state. Design and achievement categories were judged by separate panels.
The judges for achievement entries were:
- Wallace Sage, Goliad Historical Commission
- Marc Maxwell, City of Sulphur Springs
- Maddie Phillips, Travel Texas
- Jayne Hoff, Goliad Economic Development Corporation
- Scott Young, Historic Granbury Merchants Association
- Katie Neason, Downtown Bryan Developer
- Alicia Cowley, San Antonio River Authority
Submit your vote by following this link to the Texas Downtown page on Facebook.
Voting starts now and runs through next Friday, October 5th at 5pm.Winners will be announced on Wednesday, October 25 at the President’s Awards Gala, held in conjunction with the 2023 Texas Downtown Annual Conference scheduled for October 24-27 in Nacogdoches.
For more information about the President’s Awards, the Texas Downtown Annual Conference, or other programs of the Texas Downtown Association, please visit www.texasdowntown.org.
For more information contact:
Laura Capes Terry Suzy Lawrence
BeLocal Georgetown Texas Downtown
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