Call Number:

2003.016

Repository:

Old York Road Historical Society

Extent:

1.0 linear feet

Language:

English

Date:

1985-1993 (inclusive)

Creator:

Jenkintown Urban Mobilization Program.

Abstract:

The Jenkintown Urban Mobilization Program (JUMP) was created as a non-profit corporation in 1985. Its purpose was to establish a full-time revitalization effort for the Central Business District of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. The Jenkintown Urban Mobilization Program records, 1985-1993, consist of planning studies and administrative records of the organization.

The Jenkintown Urban Mobilization Program (JUMP) was an outgrowth of a 1980 Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown Planning Study, "A New Main Street for Jenkintown," and a 1985 "Comprehensive Plan for Jenkintown." Created as a non-profit corporation in 1985, its purpose was to establish a full-time revitalization effort for the Central Business District. JUMP was responsible for administering the Pennsylvania Main Street Manager Program in Jenkintown and a façade and architectural design program provided for through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community Affairs.

The duties of the Main Street Manager, as described in the program application, were ambitious. They ranged from encouraging and promoting business, tackling parking and traffic problems and other routine improvements to the more daring undertaking of reorienting the main business corridor away from Old York Road.

Although JUMP credited itself for a reinvigorated downtown, the minutes, 1985-1990, covering the period during the Main Street Manager’s tenure, do not indicate substantial changes. Although some facades were improved through the financial incentive program, little else seemed to have been accomplished. JUMP last met December 19, 1990, with financial audits running for several more years.

The Jenkintown Urban Mobilization Program records, 1985-1993, consist of planning studies and administrative records of the organization. Following is an inventory of the collection:

Box 1 Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown Planning Study, “A New Main Street for Jenkintown, 1980. Main Street Manager Program Proposal JUMP minutes, 1985-1990 Audit, 1992-1993

Box 2: Miscellaneous plans, applications Resumes of JUMP board and managers Fund Raising and Advertising Promotion Committees miscellany Jenkintown photographs (photocopies—perhaps for application) Background material including Hazleton and Shenandoah Main Street Manager applications

Box 3: Clippings Photographs (3 items)