Rawlins Main Street

What's Up Downtown?

• Shop Saturday

Think local businesses aren't open on Saturdays? Think again! Come shop, dine and discover 22 downtown businesses open every Saturday, including eight restaurants, two services, and twelve retail stores! Click here for a complete list of businesses, including address and hours that are guaranteed for May-July 2013. However, all of the businesses are traditionally open on Saturdays. Come explore what downtown has to offer you this weekend!

• Construction Coming Soon

Rawlins DDA/Main Street and the City of Rawlins received an $800,000 grant for Streetscaping throughout downtown Rawlins.  The matching funds for this grant were raised locally during the 2010 and 2011 Balls. The construction will include bumpouts on all corners on Cedar between 3rd and 6th, more trashcans and benches, a center lane, informational kiosks about downtown businesses, and will restructure parking throughout downtown to one side diagonal and one side parallel. This project will take between 3-4 months, and will tear up Cedar Street from 3rd-6th. For the "Request for Proposal Packet" for the design and bidding services, click here. To read about this project and other recommended improvements, click here to view the Rawlins Downtown Development Plan. As we receive questions about the RFP, we will be posting the answers. New questions posted here as of April 10, 2013.

• Downtown: A Historic Asset

Over the past two years, Rawlins DDA/Main Street has been working with community members and other towns to update the Design Guidelines created for downtown in 1984. We now have updated Design Guidelines approved by City Council in August 2012. This ordinance creates a mandatory review, voluntary compliance for all facade updates, new construction and signage in the Downtown Development District. Click here to read the Design Guidelines and feel free to call 307-328-2099 with any questions.