The city of Berryville is best known for its annual Wooly Worm Festival, which pays homage to the wooly worms believed ability to forecast the harshness of the upcoming winter season.

And the wooly worms aren't the only thing undergoing a metamorphosis as the city works to revitalize and beautify its downtown streetscape.

We inched on over debate, evolve to hear more about the city's progress and the goals for the future.

For this week's Monday's on Main segments.

When I think about Main Street in my position, it entails businesses, buildings and beautification.

We support businesses.

We recruit businesses and buildings.

We are part of the Kentucky Heritage Council and Historic Preservation.

We are currently working on a historic district nomination for Main Street and downtown and then beautification.

You know, we want things to look pretty, so if it's pretty, we attract new businesses and tourists to the area.

Bailey feels a lot different than when I was growing up here.

Everything they've done, like especially in the last ten years, is really made it a unique space.

It's an actual walkable main street.

I think that has a lot to do with what the feel of town is.

Before there was electric lines, electric poles out on the sidewalks, lines overhead didn't feel like a town.

With that streetscape project, it gave us new sidewalks, new lampposts, landscaping beds.

It took all of our wiring and utilities underground, so we had a pretty main street.

Now we're just trying to, you know, shift our focus again and look at three anchor projects that we have going on in town.

We've got one right here at the end of town near the city hall.

It is the WPA building.

And the WPA building was built in 1939 by the Works Project.

Works Progress Administration, and the city is on that building.

It's been vacant for about six years now.

We applied for the Brownfields Cleanup grant, and this is where patients really came into play.

We applied for that grant four times.

Three times we were turned down three times we kind of gave up, but we didn't.

We applied again, and the fourth time we won our grant.

So we got a half a million dollars to clean that building up and restore the inside in the interior.

We'd love to see it become look at Main Street and or something like that.

There's an investor right now that has purchased our elementary school, and his goal is to turn it into a multi-use space, including lodging.

So what that's going to look like, we're not sure.

Real excited, though.

He's he's almost got engineered plans on exactly what he plans to be with his investors.

But when he does turn that into a multi-use space with lodging, I think that's going to really help to people staying downtown, being able to walk up and down the street and having events in the evening.

Another project anchor project that we have downtown is the Town Square project.

We applied for an annual grant, an abandoned land grant to build a town square, a place in the center of town where a community could come together.

We could host events, have live music, you know, maybe host some evening markets, daytime markets.

And we got that grant.

And the town square is now under construction and hoped hopefully will be done Thanksgiving of this year.

The infrastructure is mainly done and then these anchor projects that the city is working on and investors are working on, like the school and the town square and the WPA building.

People will see opportunity in the middle of all those projects and then private investment will start to happen more for us.

So 20 years in the making and here we are, we're seeing some really good things happen because of it.

Congrats to them.

Batesville also has a main street mile, which encourages locals and tourists to make use of their walkable downtown main Street.