About Shaw Main Streets

DID YOU KNOW?
Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton helped bring jazz, with his stylistic piano playing, to the attention of a greater audience during one of his visits here from New Orleans to Washington, DC. He opened a club, called the "Music Box," on U Street, one of the first jazz clubs in Shaw.

About Us

Shaw Main Streets, Inc. (SMS) is a non-profit organization facilitating a community-driven process to revitalize the 7th and 9th Street commercial corridors of the Shaw area following a comprehensive four-point strategy of organization, public outreach and marketing, physical improvements, and economic development.

Shaw Main Streets is dedicated to helping residents, businesses and property owners, non-profit organizations, faith-based organizations, and other stakeholders work together across the boundaries of race, income, sector, politics, and geography to enhance their respective talents and resources in order to increase the economic competitiveness of the area, to develop, nurture, and support historic preservation in the neighborhoods, and to improve the quality of life for everyone. Through the SMS program the neighborhoods making up the Shaw target area will become an even more attractive and exciting place for residents and visitors alike to live, work, play, and pray.

The Shaw Main Streets target area is roughly bounded by K Street at the south, Florida Avenue/U Street on the north, 7th Street on the east, and 9th Street on the west. The organization’s outreach and influence, however, will not be necessarily limited by these boundaries.

Shaw Main Street’s goal is to establish a sustainable, self-sufficient but integrated business district where residents and visitors can find everything they might need within this vibrant, walkable community. Our Main Street program will support the work of volunteers to make Shaw an even more attractive and exciting place for residents and visitors alike to live, work, shop, play, and pray.

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1426 9^th Street, NW Washington, DC 20001-3330 ---- Phone: (202) 265- SHAW ---- Fax: (202) 265-7529 ---- info@shawmainstreets.com

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