Downtown South Bend Inc

Programs: Hosted 6 meetings with the downtown ras (restaurants, attractions and shops). These meetings offer a platform for businesses to network and learn about all the great things happening in and around downtown. Ras meetings allow members to hear about all of the downtown events, marketing opportunities, business development, safety, and beautification efforts. Dtsb hosted 13 ribbon cuttings and welcomed 17 new business openings; awarded over $22,000 in grants for business exterior and interior enhancement projects. Street-level solutions: 5,000 cleaning hours; 541 block faces weeded; over 100 flags and banners installed; over 1,800 pots of flowers planted; over 300 hanging baskets planted and watered; 5,588 safety patrol hours; 3,615 special and seasonal decor hours; 70,000 lbs. Of trash removed; and 379 snow removal hours. Over 300 new plants were added to street-level beds along michigan st. And over 700 strands of colorful holiday light dcor installed for the holiday season. Implementation of new outreach specialist ambassador focused on connecting the homeless/panhandling population with resources available. Dtsb planned and executed over 100 events; dtsb tent party - over 4,000 attendees art beat with a record attendance of close to 13,000 attendees, downtown for the holidays newly branded themed weekend programming strategy; summer event series focusing on music, health & fitness and family movies. Host first fridays themed programming every first friday of the month for 12 months. Social media growth continues as we use creative ways to engage our audience showing trending growth on fb, twitter, instagram, newsletter distribution, etc.