Members/Supporters

Corporate Partners

Piedmont Rural Telephone Co-op

Small Business ($75-$500 Level)

1st Franklin Financial

Mr. & Mrs. Philip Betette

Blank Slate

Cornerstone Investment Management

IEJ Properties

JMG Photo & Video

Life in Color Events

LCDC

Palmetto Heritage

Plan Home Care

Persnickety Ladies & Children’s Wear

Picture This Frame & Art

Rainbow Paint Center

Roma

Robertson ACE Hardware

ServePro of Newberry & Laurens Counties

Sherer Body Shop

Skin by Nature

State Farm

The Artist’s Coop

The Gresham Company

Transit Leasing of Laurens

USC Union Laurens Location

Vault Salon & Spa

Whiteford’s Giant Burger

WLBG

Cornerstone ($500 Level)

Advertiser Printing

Mike Glasgow

Laurens County Water & Sewer Commission – Debbie Price

United Community Bank

Pillar ($250 Level)

Bill & Patsy Adams

Connie Daniels

Gray Funeral Home

Love Bailey & Associates

Marilyn & Bill Ladd

Terry & Nancy Taylor

Mr. & Mrs. Stan Turner

US Post Office

Foundation ($125 Level)

All-Dry of the Carolinas

Joe Babb

Chris Benson & Raymond James

Bill Cooper & Martin Meek

Bill & Patty Craine

King & Augusta Dixon

Jeri & Randy Manley

Enoch & Edna McCarter

John & Helen McGinnis

Kennedy Mortuary

Connie & Dee Parker

Ernie & Jeanette Segars

Randy & Sarah Smith

Robin & Beth Todd

Suun Boh Lee- Young Fashion Shop

Mortar ($60 Level)

Herbert & Gwen Adams

Bill & Kathy Baldwin

Edith & Warren Brown

Billy & Jane Cain

Tom & Janice Carson

Marc & Karen Coker

Gary Coleman

Edith Davis

Don & Jan Franks

Melinda Gray

Martha Gilchrest

Mike & Carolyn Lindley

Elizabeth Morris

Ralph & Annette Patterson

Leon & Barbara Patterson

William & Ivy Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Billy Strickland

Dr. & Mrs. Edgar Taylor

Adam & Monica Taylor

Spike & Melissa Tilden

Oscar Tribble

Meg & Matthew Turner

Patricia B. Wootton

Brick ($30 Level)

Tana Adams

Jamie Baldwin

Dianne & Keith Belsom

Byron & Alice Brown

Linda Bruce

James & Marilyn Buchanan

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Byars

Dr. Bill Childers

Diana Hayden

Patsy Irick

Tom & Melanie Kennemore

Gwen Lockett

Kay Monroe

Jordan Peeler

Debbie & Claude Vaughn

Donna Williams

Public Square Improvement District Members

Main Street Laurens is one of only approximately 1,500 business improvement districts in the nation and one of only 3 in South Carolina.

Main Street Laurens operates efficiently and effectively because of the business improvement district. While ALL of Laurens benefits from a revitalized downtown, the greatest beneficiaries are the property owners and businesses on whom the tax is levied. Benefits include public improvements, organized special events, business recruitment assistance, cooperative marketing opportunities, renewed interest in the downtown area, among others. By increasing interest in the downtown area, the Main Street program helps create a positive image that locals and visitors associate with all of Laurens.

Over the past five years, the downtown area has come alive with building renovations, new stores, and more visitors: 22 new businesses have opened, 5 businesses have expanded, 26 new jobs have been created, 12 buildings have undergone renovation, over $725,000 has been invested by the private sector, over $2.2 million has been invested by the public sector, and over 20,000 people participated in last year’s Squealin’ on the Square BBQ Festival.

Public Square Improvement District Boundaries

Bounded by the Little River & RR Tracks
– EAST: S. Harper Street (Bypass 76-RR Tracks on S. Harper Street)
– WEST: Church Street (76 Bypass – W. Main Street)
– SOUTH: RR Tracks & Little River
– NORTH: Little River