Business View Magazine | August 2020

171 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE AUGUST 2020 DOUGLAS , AR I ZONA amateur and professional photographers from around the world. Its residents and visitors enjoy amazing vistas across the region, with trails, preserves, and open space for walking, hiking, and biking. Its historic downtown features the famed Gadsden Hotel, which opened in 1907, and the Grand Theatre, which opened in 1919, both of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Douglas is actively seeking to revitalize its downtown, which is targeted for streetscape completion in 2021. “We are investing, between this fiscal year and the upcoming one, about a quarter of a million dollars into a downtown revitalization street plan,” explains City Manager, Jerene Watson. “That shows our businesses and other outside investors that we’re serious about moving the city forward and reviving some of the economic vitality that it’s had in the recent past. We had been meeting with some of the business owners that are out-of-state, who own some of the main properties along G Avenue,