Natick Center is a vital, thriving interesting place to live, work and visit. The respect shown for the historical character of our buildings, the prosperous and friendly business atmosphere, the activities and events on the common, and our growth as a center of arts and culture, all make Natick Center a special place.

Natick Center Associates is an organization made up of property owners, retail and office people, concerned neighbors, town officials, non-profits, and corporations.   We strive to be a great example of a successful public - private partnership. We care about preserving the small town feel and the big city amenities. We care about the health and well being of all the residents and businesses. We applaud the perserverance and vitality of The Center for Arts in Natick. We know that Downtown Matters.

Together we collaborate on events and celebrations...advocate for thoughtful design and planning...help quality businesses expand or locate here... work to improve parking and pedestrian safety...and sponsor projects like the MBTA mural and Moran Park. In short, we're the impetus behind many of the changes you've seen over the last 5 years. And we're not done yet! We need your help to keep the momentum going and undertake excting exciting new projects.

The financial support also enabled us to expand our purpose and scope of activities to work with the Town in a public-private partnership on all issues and policies relating to the revitalization of downtown Natick as a multi-use town center. 

The $250,000 we received in Sign and Façade funds alone leveraged $1,500,000 in private sector improvements in downtown Natick.  And overall, we have been directly responsible for $2,500,000 of investment.  Please note that this amount does not include any of the private sector investments that have occurred coincidentally during our tenure.  We were proud to be chosen as the Massachusetts recipient of the Federal Home Loan Bank’s Year 2000 award for outstanding work in community development. 

One of our most important objectives still remains in front of us: to work with the Town to solve the parking problem in downtown Natick. We have just concluded a real estate feasibility analysis that evaluates alternative land use and financing scenarios for parking and mixed-use development in downtown Natick.  We are now working to secure grant funds for further study of the impacts of the identified alternatives.  We also continue to work with TCAN to ensure that the arts really do bring additional economic vitality to Natick Center.  And we are working with the Chamber as well, to put Natick Center on the cultural tourism map.

In 1996, 70 downtown businesses were members of the organization today property owners, retail and office people, concerned neighbors, town officials, non-profits, and regional corporations are members.