TIFFIN, OHIO – September 11, 2025 – The 2025 Main Street Celebration and Downtown Summit was held on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, at the Chandelier Community Event Center.

The event included a panel discussion featuring Aaron Montz, Amy Reinhart, and David Zak, who spoke about the origins of the Main Street program in Tiffin and the decision to join the coordinating program, Heritage Ohio ten years ago.

Donna Gross, Downtown Tiffin Main Street Manager, provided remarks on Downtown Tiffin’s recognition as a Nationally Accredited Main Street Program for the past decade.

The summit also recognized community members, building owners, business owners, and volunteers who have contributed to the revitalization of Downtown Tiffin. The 2025 Downtown Tiffin Main Street Award recipients were:

• JVC Properties/Wild Bunch Wellness Bar – Development Award
  
• The Turntable – Entrepreneurial Award
  
• Ralph’s Joy of Living – Business Legacy Award
  
• City of Tiffin – Main Street Director Award
  
• Andrew and Cindy Kalnow – Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Reclaim It – Golden Broom Award

Downtown Tiffin will participate in the Heritage Ohio Main Street Awards Ceremony at the annual Heritage Ohio Preservation and Revitalization Conference, scheduled for October 15, 2025, in Canton, Ohio. Downtown Tiffin has been named a finalist in the following categories: Best Main Street Committee Project, Main Street Volunteer of the Year, and Main Street Business of the Year.

Downtown Tiffin 10 Year Celebration Video. 

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About Downtown Tiffin 

The revitalization of Downtown Tiffin began in 2011 with the formation of Tiffin Tomorrow, a grassroots initiative led by community members dedicated to promoting economic development and ensuring the long-term prosperity of the downtown district. In 2014, the City of Tiffin partnered with the Seneca Industrial and Economic Development Corporation (SIEDC) to serve as the official downtown organization. Tiffin Tomorrow was incorporated into SIEDC, which later evolved into the Tiffin-Seneca Economic Partnership (TSEP), and now operates under the Seneca County Collaborative as the Downtown Development Board—the governing body for downtown revitalization efforts. Since 2015, Downtown Tiffin has proudly participated in Heritage Ohio’s Main Street Program, further strengthening its commitment to historic preservation, economic vitality, and community engagement. For more information, click here. 

About Heritage Ohio 

Heritage Ohio promotes economic growth through the preservation and revitalization of downtowns and neighborhoods across Ohio. Heritage Ohio is the coordinating agency for the Ohio Main Street Program and is the designated statewide Ohio preservation partner with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Through saving the places that matter we can all build a community and live better. Learn more about how to become involved by visiting www.heritageohio.org. 

About Main Street America 

Main Street America leads a movement committed to strengthening communities through preservation-based economic development in older and historic downtowns and neighborhood commercial districts. For more than 40 years, Main Street America has provided a practical, adaptable, and impactful framework for community-driven, comprehensive revitalization through the Main Street Approach™. Our network of more than 1,600 neighborhoods and communities, rural and urban, share both a commitment to place and to building stronger communities through preservation-based economic development. Since 1980, communities participating in the program have generated more than $101.58 billion in new public and private investment, generated 168,693 net new businesses and 746,897 net new jobs, rehabilitated more than 325,119 buildings, and levered over 33.7 million volunteer hours. Main Street America is a nonprofit subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. For more information, visit mainstreet.org.