Preserving The Downtown
Kissimmee Main Street takes on the responsibility of promoting and preserving the historic venues and local treasures of the downtown. This includes statues, monuments, historic buildings, historic locations, shops, cultural pieces, and even arts located right in the heart of Downtown Kissimmee. Kissimmee Main Street hosts numerous events like Boo on Broadway and the Kissimmee Valley Farmer’s Market that bring the community and visitors to the Downtown area. Our murals around Downtown Kissimmee are an effort in partnership with numerous local artists; to keep the downtown revitalized and bring a unique atmosphere to our downtown. Kissimmee Main Street is a member of the nationally accredited Main Street® program. Along with the Main Street America Program, we aspire to develop the economy of Downtown Kissimmee, preserve the culture and history and deliver the best to Kissimmee.
A Look Into Historic Downtown Kissimmee
Since 1883 Kissimmee’s “Kowtown” had a sense of a united community. That is why today in the Historic Downtown Kissimmee this same small town ambiance is found. Downtown Kissimmee’s maturity provides a diverse, safe, and vibrant downtown. This allows the downtown to be filled with opportunities for both visitors and locals to enjoy. Whether newcomers, visitors, or long-time locals they all share a common love for the downtown’s strong sense of community. As time passes the downtown has expanded and has achieved real growth. The downtown’s growth has renovated and refreshed many areas like the newly renovated Church Street, several historic buildings, and housing developments.
Check it all out in our short video. We hope you enjoy watching our short video as much as us.
Courtesy and Credit to : Central Florida Aerial Solutions, LLC
Shaping The Future
Kissimmee Main Street not only preserves the culture and history of the Downtown but brings new life for shops, stores, and art venues located in the Downtown. As time passes the downtown has expanded and has achieved real growth. The downtown’s growth has renovated and refreshed many areas like the newly renovated Church Street, several historic buildings, housing developments, and historic locations. Keeping the Downtown growing and refreshed throughout the years accomplishes the goal of providing future generations enjoyment of these treasures in the future.
The future looks bright for the Historic Downtown with the new projects coming to the community. The vision for the Downtown Kissimmee Community Area is to redevelop the historic, lakeside “destination- downtown” with established urban neighborhoods interwoven within shopping, employment, entertainment, and recreation districts.
The vision for these neighborhoods includes improving the public spaces and creating additional green open spaces, connecting the neighborhoods with well-lighted, multi-modal streets, encouraging and enabling increased homeownership, and encouraging and enabling private sector development of new residential units to update existing development patterns and increasing residential densities where appropriate. This vision would include public spaces, neighborhood pocket parks, and green spaces that share a consistent design theme or style. The vision also includes commercial corridors, roadways, and neighborhood streets that share consistent landscaping and hardscaping themes, and consistent signage and lighting treatments. The application of unifying themes or treatments to the public realm areas of the Downtown Kissimmee will provide a visible “identity” for the Downtown Community Redevelopment Area and establish a visual “sense of place” for downtown Kissimmee.
Downtown Murals
The Historic Downtown is the home to various categories of arts and culture. The Mural experience is no exception; in partnership with Osceola Arts, City of Kissimmee, Experience Kissimmee and Sherwin-Williams the numerous local artist bring the walls of the city to life. The ARTisNOW program is a public Murals project this project consist of joining talented local artists and community members through the collaborative process of mural-making to create high-quality public murals. These murals have transformed and revitalized the downtown Kissimmee public spaces adding color, vibrancy, and character. Murals contrast the negative mental effects of concrete and asphalt and can have therapeutic benefits for all those around. ARTisNOW provides a new way of looking at the arts as a powerful force to inspire community dialogue, community development, and celebrate local culture.
The Mosaic Project
New apartments, townhomes, retail space, a hotel and parking is officially coming to downtown Kissimmee.
The Mosaic Development includes 287 apartments, a 120-room hotel, 15,000 square feet of retail space, two parking structures and 16 townhouses on 10 acres of land near Kissimmee's future SunRail station.
Neighborhood and Street Improvements
Neighborhood Planning Program (Develop an ongoing community involvement program in order to gather citizen support for the proposed improvements and also to develop a sense of pride in area residents and merchants
Streetscape Improvements Phase II (Sproule, Dakin, Monument, Darlington and Stewart between Broadway and Church; Broadway between Neptune and Stewart and Emmett Street between Broadway and John Young Parkway)
Streetscape Improvements Phase III (Sproule from Church to Drury, Dakin from Church to Stewart/Central, Beaumont from Lakewood to MLK, Neptune from Lakeshore to Broadway, Drury from Broadway to MLK, Main from Broadway to Vine)
Gateways Construction (MLK/JYP, Central/Vine, Emmett/JYP, Neptune/Lawrence Silas)Gateways Construction II (Mabbette/Randolph, Hughey/Rose, Mitchell/Neptune, Oak/Palmway, Park/
Palmway, Oak/LSB, Park/Main, Oak/Main)
Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvements (Bike blvds, shared lanes, on-street dedicated lanes consistent with the master plan)
Neighborhood Improvements (Complete sidewalk network and streetscape improvements including traffc calming, street lighting, canopy trees, bus shelters, signage and wayfnding; pocket park opportunities)
Streetscape Improvement Phase IV (Rose from Hughey to Mabbette , Church from Stewart to Main; Oak Street between Main Street and Tohopekaliga, MLK from JYP to roundabout; Central from Vine to MLK, and Oak from Mann to Main.
Neighborhood Planning and Improvements (Complete sidewalk network and streetscape improvements including traffc calming, street lighting, canopy trees, bus shelters, signage and wayfnding; pocket park opportunities
