The Power of Partnership
Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate the North Adams Partnership’s one-year anniversary!
90 Main Street glittered in the glow of the Hatchlings and the warmth of community. North Adams continues to shine as a creative, resilient city—one where people show up for each other every day in big and small ways.
Missed the event? Here are some ways you can support downtown North Adams:
✅ Leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Google review
✅ Move a meeting from a screen to downtown
✅ Visit a business you haven’t been to before
Investment doesn’t just mean buying and renovating buildings. Investments of time and care on a daily basis are just as important. The ROI on those investments? Thriving, welcoming neighborhoods.
So get out there and invest in North Adams! And here’s to another year of collaboration, creativity, and community.
We asked, you answered! Here are the commitments YOU made to North Adams:
Learn about the effort to restore passenger rail service from North Adams to Boston at williams.edu/go/rail and call Governor Healey to let her know you support the project!
Center for U.S. History and Civics (community-level—NOT academic)
Brand Eagle Street as the “SoHo of North Adams” so people in NYC ask each other, “have you been to Eagle Street?”
I will connect the Eclipse Mill—where I live—with the Partnership to organize an event.
Plant a street tree.
Compliment a stranger.
Engage the process.
Keep showing up.
Participate or create an annual tradition that is centered around community in North Adams.
Convince your friends to move here.
Bring some non-North Adamsers to dinner at least once per quarter!
Take a walk from MASS MoCA to MCLA and write a story about it. Then take a friend.
I commit to bringing my class(es) downtown at least 1x per semester
Holiday walk on Eagle Street—EVERY building open with activities, food, etc.
Municipal fiber internet + community WiFi
Help the History Museum find a home!
Go to the Farmer’s Market
Buy an artwork from a local artist!
I will continue the small performance art project I started last year and/or I will sit on a bench on a sunny day + blow bubbles + talk to people.
Coffee + snacks @ the Emporium
Shop local.
Eat local.
Walk the downtown and meet new people.
Pick a project to volunteer for
Lunch once a week downtown in a different restaurant each week
I will post again on Yelp how wonderful the Wish Tree restaurant is
Have at least once cup of coffee at Steeple City Social a week
Open a hypnosis treatment business to address problems of any type. This can help anyone with any issue.
Buy a building and give it the love it needs and deserves.
I will visit the downtown galleries (I’m new in town)
Shop local at the Holiday Season
Plant more native New England Street trees & shrubs
Keep the nips outta the streets & sidewalks & river & trees & shrubs & etc.!!! Nov. 1st BFAIR!
Look locally for gifts before the Big Boxes or amazon.
Become a member of NBCTC and produce a TV show, or radio show, or podcast!
Reach out and thank a business or nonprofit in North Adams for doing what they do here!
Extend the Farmer’s Market through Thanksgiving
Rebuild downtown bit by bit!
Hosting monthly meetups @ local businesses 🙂
A physical home for North Adams Historical Society
Career development center for adults + teens!
