Downtown Encinitas Mainstreet Association | Welcome to Downtown Encinitas California

Welcome to DEMA

August 3, 2009

The Downtown Encinitas MainStreet Association

818 S. Coast Hwy 101 - Encinitas, CA 92024

Phone: 760.943.1950 Fax: 760.943.1977

We are a robust group of business and property owners in the coastal downtown area of Encinitas, California. Our mission is simple: restore, revitalize and enjoy! We welcome business owners and residents to join our organization, volunteer at our community-focused events or just enjoy everything that is one of the last old-style California beach towns located in San Diego’s North County. Main Street is a revitalization strategy used in over 1,200 cities and 40 states. Developed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s National Main Street Center, the program encourages imaginative use of business and government resources to support local downtown and neighborhood commercial district revitalization efforts. The MainStreet approach is based on four points and relies on eight guiding principles to produce fundamental change in traditional commercial business districts.

DEMA is an organization committed to revitalizing and preserving the Encinitas, California area between the Pacific Ocean to the west, Encinitas Boulevard to the north, Vulcan Avenue to the east and K Street to the south. A dedicated Board of Directors from businesses in the area takes great pride in helping foster the development of programs and initiatives that will highlight their historical district, dating back to its development in the late 1800’s.

Downtown Encinitas

With the mantra, “Downtown Encinitas – a place to Live, Work, and Play,” residents and visitors to the area will first-handedly experience the work done by the organization over the past two decades. Exciting weekend events, annual celebrations and the upholding of the organization’s values to preserve and protect offers countless patrons to the district the kind hospitality, excellent climate and the sense of community that is truly downtown Encinitas.