Petworth Main Street is a community-driven organization that supports small and local business along Upshur Street NW from 8th to 13th Streets, and Georgia Avenue NW from Upshur St to Missouri Ave NW. We look to make our diverse and active corridor an inviting, inclusive, and exciting place in Washington DC to live, work, and invest. We invite you to learn more about our organization values and review our mission and vision statements.
As an organization, we strive to be:
Collaborative
Petworth Main Street forges strategic partnerships with community groups, government representatives and residents to move our work forward.
Imaginative
We value solutions that are “outside of the box” and seek to showcase our corridor's uniqueness by promoting arts, music and culture.
Inclusive
Our corridor is one of the most diverse in the District, and we look forward to highlighting and celebrating this diversity and the strength it brings to the area.
Impactful
We know through dedication, innovation, cooperation and compassion we can create true and lasting impact in our corridor, for the betterment of all.
Celebrating Culture
Petworth Main Street represents an area of DC where cultures of all kinds interact, build upon, and compliment each other.
OUR MISSION
Inspired by the roots, spirit, and character of our diverse neighborhoods, Uptown Community Initiative supports vibrant and inclusive business corridors across the Uptown community.
OUR VISION
Uptown Community Initiative envisions walkable and accessible corridors along mid-Georgia Avenue, 14th, Kennedy, and Upshur Streets, where small businesses survive and thrive, creating a place where all residents can celebrate their diverse neighborhoods and community-serving organizations unite through partnerships and collaboration.