Downtown Akron Partnership’s mission is to promote and build a vibrant and valuable downtown for all people.
DAP is dedicated to bringing people, activity, business and a thriving civic life to the heart of Akron. Through strategic marketing and management of downtown’s resources, we’re working to promote downtown as a live, work, play destination in the center of our city.
Our areas of focus include collaborative marketing and promotion; resources and support for business development; enhancement, and maintenance of the physical environment; safety and hospitality services; and signature programming and placemaking.
Opportunities
DAP offers a variety of sponsorship opportunities to showcase your business to the thousands of people who visit the downtown neighborhood every day for events, employment, leisure activities, food and drink, and more, alongside the growing number of residents who call downtown Akron home. Sponsorships are an excellent way to reach passionate audiences, while enhancing your brand with the public’s increasing satisfaction with downtown Akron.
Current Sponsorship opportunities include:
- Main Street Winter Lighting (click here for more information)
- Downtown Akron Lunar New Year Celebration (click here for more information)
- Downtown Akron Sakura Festival (click here for more information)
- Downtown Akron South Asian Celebration (click here for more information)
- Downtown Akron Juneteenth Celebration (click here for more information)
- Wellness on the Plaza (click here for more information)
- Downtown Akron Fall Fest (click here for more information)
- Smells Like Snow Coffee Festival (click here for more information)
For more information and to inform us of your interest, fill out the form below and a DAP staff member will get back to you promptly.
DAP Thanks Our Sponsors:
2024-2025 Main Street Winter Lighting Sponsors
- Missing Falls Brewery
- Smaltz Insurance LLC
- State and Federal Communications, Inc.
- METRO RTA
- McDonald Hopkins LLC
- Gary Rickel
- The Mick and Rick Band
- Liz Denholm
- Capital Talent Development Group
- Narrow Path Investigations
- DLZ
4th Annual Akron Latin Festival Sponsors
- Great Work Employment Services
- Goodyear's HOLA Employee Resource Group
- Summit County Prosecutor's Office
Summer 2024 Hanging Flower Basket Sponsors
- The Beckett Family
- McDonald Hopkins LLC
- Michael Derr & Greg Sterling
- 159 Main
- Burgess & Niple, Inc.
-
Luigi's Restaurant
- The Kane Family
- Art x Love
- Great Work Employment Services
- State and Federal Communications, Inc.
- Summit County Executive Ilene Shapiro
- DLZ
- Better Business Bureau
- KF Marketing, LLC
- Akron Cleveland Association of REALTORS
- The Mick and Rick Band
- Akron Children's Museum
- Explore City Tours
- Akron/Summit Convention & Visitors Bureau
- Liz Denholm