On October 6, 2021, the City Council approved a resolution acknowledging Mayor Winn’s reconstitution of the City’s Tooele Downtown Alliance, and acknowledging her appointments of Alliance committee members. In 2021 Tooele City was designated a Utah Main Street community with the purpose of revitalizing the downtown area, Main Street, and the Broadway area. The Utah Main Street Program works frequently with and through the City’s Tooele Downtown Alliance for funding, training, and activities. Under the direction of the City’s Downtown Alliance improvements included murals, buffalo statues, and beautification projects such as flowers and downtown decorating.

In 2023, individual downtown business owners created a Utah nonprofit corporation also named the Tooele Downtown Alliance, and obtained recognition of its IRS 501(c)(3) status. For the purposes of clearly delineating the Main Street Program membership and responsibilities, avoiding confusion in budgeting, obtaining grants and other funding, conducting activities, attending meetings, and making committee appointments, the City Administration recommends renaming the City’s Tooele Downtown Alliance the Tooele City Historic Main Street Commission.

On June 5, 2024, the Tooele City Council approved a resolution to rename Tooele City’s Downtown Alliance the Tooele City Historic Main Street Commission to clearly separate the two entities [the City and the non-profit 501(c)(3)].

Visit the Historic Main Street Commission Page on our website to learn more.