Editing Cheney, Washington (section)

===Downtown historic district===
Located approximately four blocks from the EWU campus, Historic Downtown Cheney offers a traditional mix of retail and service businesses as well as government offices.  In 1999, Eastern Washington University, the City of Cheney, and the downtown business community formed a university/community partnership called "Pathways to Progress."  Pathways to Progress quickly adopted the tenets and principles of the Main Street approach to downtown revitalization, formed a board of directors, and began the process of becoming a 501c(3) nonprofit corporation. Pathways to Progress is not a registered 501c(3) nonprofit corporation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sos.wa.gov/charities/search-app.aspx#/results?name=Pathways%20to%20Progress&category=|title=Washington State Secretary of State Charity and Commercial Fundraiser Search|date=April 17, 2017|website=www.sos.wa.gov/charities/search-app.aspx|access-date=April 17, 2017|archive-date=May 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170508032614/https://www.sos.wa.gov/charities/search-app.aspx#/results?name=Pathways%20to%20Progress&category=|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Immediately, Pathways to Progress undertook several major projects, including pedestrian streetscape enhancements along First Street (Main Street), and College Avenue.  Additionally, Pathways facilitated talks between EWU and a private developer that led to the construction of Brewster Hall, a mixed-use student residence in the downtown core.

Pathways to Progress is no longer an active organization.

Downtown Cheney has since evolved into a more traditional "university district", hosting numerous community festivals, a [http://www.localharvest.org/farmers-markets/M24155 farmers' market], and businesses catering to the college crowd.

Cheney's downtown area is also home of the Cheney Historical Museum which is dedicated to gathering, preserving, and sharing information and artifacts concerning the history of the Four Lakes, Marshall, Cheney, Tyler, and Amber districts of southwest Spokane County in eastern Washington. Volunteers open the museum at various times by season and by appointment as well as engage in research and preserving and caring for the collection.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cheneymuseum.org/aboutcontact/|title=About/Contact|website=Cheney Historical Museum|access-date=August 16, 2019}}</ref>  Another historic site, the Sterling-Moorman House, is also under development.

Downtown Cheney is the region's gateway to the Columbia Plateau Trail and the Fish Lake Trail,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lindquist |first=Molly |date=2019-10-04 |title=Spending a Day in Cheney Washington |url=https://explorewashingtonstate.com/a-day-in-cheney-washington/ |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=Explore Washington State |language=en-US}}</ref> both of which explore the unique geology of the [http://www.iceagefloodsewa.org/ Great Ice Age Floods].