Sara McDaniel (left) and Rachel Miller (right) are the community activists who worked to get the City of Minden featured on the HGTV series Home Town Kickstart.
The City of Minden is prepping for their close-up as they’ll be one of six small towns featured on the new HGTV series of Home Town Kickstart. It’s a spin-off of the hit series Home Town Takeover where beloved Mississippi designers Ben and Erin Napier revitalize small communities. Minden community activist Sara McDaniel says they are thrilled to be chosen.
“It has been an enormous amount of work, but we are so excited for the tourist that are going to come to town, and for the legacy that this show is going to leave on Minden,” said McDaniel.
McDaniel and fellow activist Rachel Miller say the small Webster Parish city was a finalist for Home Town Takeover but eventually lost out to Wetumpka, Alabama. And with all the tourism and community spirit the series brought to Wetumpka, Miller says they are hopeful Minden will also experience such a transformation.
“Our people are what make our town just so special, and I hope when people come, they’ll find that. We are the friendliest city in the south, and I think that they will see that and want to come back again, and again,” said Miller.
McDaniel and Miller are limited on what they can say about the series until it airs late spring. McDaniel says the series will feature makeovers of a Minden residence, business, and community space. McDaniel says she’s still in shock all their hard work is coming together for the town of 13,000.
“We did all this work to put together this pitch reel and I don’t think we ever stopped to think like what’s going to happen if we’re chosen,” said McDaniel.
Other cities to be featured on Home Town Kickstart are Buffalo, Wyoming; Cornwall, New York; Winslow, Arizona; LaGrange, Kentucky and Thomaston, Georgia.
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