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Yahoo
24-03-2025
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Downtown Joplin Alliance announces a number of events in coming weeks
The Downtown Joplin Alliance has a number of events planned in the coming weeks. March Downtown Now will be held from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 26, at the Main Event, 611 S. Main St. Doug Hunt, director of entrepreneurship at the Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce, will talk about nurturing local businesses and how to overcome some of the challenges along the way. The event will include light snacks and beverages and a chance to talk to other downtown business operators, residents and downtown supporters. WineShare returns from 6-8 p.m. Friday, April 4, at 417 Refine Medspa in the newly renovated Pennington Drug building, 516 S. Virginia Ave. WineShare is a free networking event for those ages 21 and older. Participants are asked to bring business cards and a bottle of wine or craft beer to share. The 2025 season is presented by Sparklight. WineShare has switched to an every-other-month event. The next gathering will be June 6. Other events in April: • Downtown Clean Team, 9-10 a.m. Saturday, April 5. Volunteers meet at Hungry Monkey, 905 S. Main St., to clean up trash and debris. They are asked to bring extra rakes, brooms and gloves. Sign up at application/?id=9351. • Third Thursday, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday April 17, in downtown Joplin. • Downtown Clean Team, 9-10 a.m. Saturday, April 19. Volunteers meet at Joplin Avenue Coffee Co., 506 S. Joplin Ave. Volunteers will be cleaning up trash and debris. They are asked to bring extra rakes, brooms and gloves. Sign up at application/?id=9351. • Volunteer Expo, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, April 19, at Joplin Empire Market, 931 E. Fourth St. The event will include an introduction to the Downtown Joplin Alliance, including its mission, strategies and board, and the 'Main Street Method' and its four points: economic vitality, design, promotions and organization. There will also be an opportunity to explore downtown Joplin volunteer opportunities, including Clean Team, Empire Market, Downtown Now, Third Thursday, Market Gardens, the Endangered Properties Program, WineShare, Downtown Holiday Experience and Night Markets. For more information, email info@downtown joplin. com or call 417-501-9649.
Yahoo
13-03-2025
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Downtown Joplin sees new growth in 2025
JOPLIN, Mo. — The Downtown Joplin Alliance says Main Street is starting off 2025 strong, building on growth trends from last year. 'Just kind of cleaning it up, securing it, kind of figuring out what the what the steps are to kind of get it underway,' said Lori Haun, DJA exec. dir. The historic Carnegie Library in downtown Joplin. The property had fallen into disuse and disrepair in recent years, but work is already underway to fix that. 'Lori Anderson is the purchaser of that. She is from the Bentonville area and does a lot of event planning with her job. And so she's actually looking at possibly doing the rehabbing the Carnegie to be kind of an event space,' said Haun. Downtown Joplin sees new growth in 2025 MSSU students explore opportunities at spring career fair NWACC students can now transfer easily to Missouri Southern State University Carthage man pleads guilty in 2024 murder case Joplin High School introduces cell phone lockers aimed to boost student focus But it isn't just history on tap in downtown Joplin this year. The Downtown Joplin Alliance is also excited about a brand new building set to open on Main, the Moss-De Graff building near 9th and Main. 'It's the first time we've had new construction in downtown Main Street in decades, probably the eighties. And so that's really neat to see that – you know it's a location that had a beautiful building before. It had been neglected. It caught on fire, you know same old story kind of thing. But it took an empty lot on Main Street and now there's a building there,' said Haun. The Empire Market is opening for its 8th season, after hitting half a million dollars in sales in 2024. They're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant funding to improve the building. 'We will have five brand new bathrooms, kind of more within the market hall. We're getting new roofing on part of this facility and doing paving out front. So it's going to be create a really, much more accessible facility and a much more comfortable facility to use,' said Haun. The 'Third Thursday' series is set to kick off its 2025 season in just a few days – the 18th year for the Main Street festival. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
