Kingston names Main Street manager
For all its many historic and aesthetic attributes, Kingston is in effect divided into three separate business sectors, united by one major boulevard. So Kingston has adopted a unifying strategy with a Main Street manager and last week announced the job is going to a longtime business and arts activist with a gallery on that key street.
The Business Alliance of Kingston, (BAK) a group formed in 2007 seeking to unify the commercial endeavors in the Uptown, Mid-Town and Rondout sections of the city, announced June 18 that Nancy Donskoj has been hired as the city’s Main Street – Broadway in this case – manager.
Donskoj, a gallery co-owner and vice president of the Rondout Business Association, was hired from among 20 applicants for the post. Co-owner of Donskoj and Company at 93 Broadway in the Rondout section, she knows firsthand the opportunities and challenges along Broadway, having been in business at that locale along the city’s main thoroughfare since 1987.
Donskoj is looking forward to the challenge, but said it is not a one-woman show.
“I think this job requires more than one person doing the job,” she said.
Donskoj will serve only part time as the Main Street manager, working with an assistant.
“I think I have the capability to gather volunteers and to implement the hundreds of ideas we could utilize here in Kingston,” said Donskoj.
The city’s emerging unity is built on a natural foundation Donskoj said she will utilize in her work. “I think they are varied business districts, but I don’t think they are that disparate as to what their goals are. They want to bring in customers.”
To that end, she said, she would start off using the “Main Street 4-Point Approach,” which starts with design, economic restructuring, promotion and organization. She also said the first endeavors will be modest to set a tone of success and encourage the business community.
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