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Uptown Greenville

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Uptown Greenville is made up of friends and benefactors including individuals, businesses and organizations who support a unified vision of continued improvement and development of the Uptown area. Uptown Greenville supports an informed network of citizens and business leaders to provide input into decision making policy about Uptown issues including parking, security, sanitation, landscaping and beautificiation. Uptown Greenville also sponsors events and activities that take place within the Uptown business district to help raise awareness of the area and what it offers.

Since its inception, Uptown Greenville has made great strides in revitalizing Greenville's center city. Uptown Greenville first became a non-profit organization in 1984 and was known as Evergreen of Greenville. This organization had not been active and was brought back to life by a downtown steering committee formed by Mayor Nancy Jenkins in 1994. The new organization was called Uptown Greenville to change the negative perceptions of the downtown to a positive, things are looking up as the group worked with the city in public/private partnerships to revitalize Greenville's center City.

What We Do

Uptown Greenville is a private nonprofit corporation established in 1992

Our Mission: Uptown Greenville is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established to developmplans and implement actions necessary to revitalize and to ensure continued growth to the Uptown Business District of Greenville, North Carolina.

Uptown Greenville supports an informed network of citizens and business leaders to provide input into decision making policy about Uptown issues including parking, security, sanitation, landscaping, and beautification. Uptown Greenville partners with public and private organizations to develop concepts and possibilities for future projects and events in the Uptown area.

Uptown Greenville helps to promote the City of Greenville's Façade Grant program, which provides matching funds for exterior improvements of Uptown buildings.

Uptown Greenville produces and promotes annual events and festivals including Freeboot Fridays, the First Friday Uptown ArtWalk, the annual community PirateFest celebration, and the Uptown Umbrella Market held on Wednesdays from 5-8 in the summer season. Uptown Greenville also sponsors the Greenville Jaycees Christmas Parade.



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