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Advertise with Downtown
The Downtown Spokane Partnership offers a variety of paid advertising and sponsorship opportunities designed to help businesses connect with downtown residents, employees, visitors, and event attendees. Through digital advertising, social media promotions, email marketing, event sponsorships, branded activations, and placemaking initiatives, organizations can increase visibility, drive customer engagement, and align their brand with the energy and growth of downtown Spokane. Whether promoting a product, service, event, or community investment, DSP’s marketing platforms provide targeted exposure while supporting programs that enhance the vitality and economic success of Spokane’s urban core.
What's Happening Newsletter
Located at the center of Spokane’s economic development, downtown maintains positive relationships with all local media and can help you spread the word about your business or event.
downtownspokane.org
Thank you for choosing our neighborhood to do business in. As part of our Ratepayer benefit package, the downtown Spokane team is available to help celebrate your grand opening.
Trash Can Ads
What are the resources and partnerships that you need to make your idea happen? Downtown staff are ready to brainstorm partnership opportunities and offer historical perspective.
Posters
When you create something in downtown the whole neighborhood benefits. Contact the office to learn about what assets we have in place for turn-key community activities.
Banners
Hundreds of events, big and small, are held annually on the streets of downtown Spokane. Our staff are here to help your event grow and thrive.
Locations
Selecting your event location can have as much effect on your success as the activities. We can help you find the perfect space to be successful.
Calendar
Spokane is known for adventurous and unique street-based activities. Our staff are experts at working with the City of Spokane and adjacent properties to quickly and efficiently vacate streets.
How to reserve
From power to port-o-potties, the logistics of creating events from the asphalt-up can be challenging to first-timers. We are here to hold your hand and walk you through the whole process.
Cost Overview
Feed them and they will come. From integrating with existing restaurants, applying for alcohol permits or partnering with the perfect vendor, let us help you feed your fans!
Lighting
Your celebration is our celebration. Take advantage of promotional and theming opportunities to let the whole community know about your event.
Advertise with Downtown
Lighting
Downtown Spokane maintains lighting systems installed on the south side of the Davenport Grand Hotel and the north face of the Fox Theater. Add your color to our downtown skyline for free when you contact us regarding an event or promotion. In addition, your BID maintains seven lamps capable of projecting large images on building flat surfaces.
Banners
Skywalk Decor
As one of only three North American cities to boast a skywalk system, these covered walkways are uniquely our own. In the spring and winter you will notice seasonal messages highlighting all that Spokane has to offer. In collaboration with building owners, the BID assists in using these gems for promotion of community events.
Skywalks
As part of our mission to create a vital and active environment, Downtown Spokane strives to assist community events and organizations in activating Downtown Spokane through a variety of promotional and event opportunities.
Community/Business Integration
Downtown staff work closely with events held in the downtown core and whenever possible will collaborate with promoters to create promotions that allow events to directly integrate with businesses.
Event Professional Networking
Quarterly networking meet-up for event planners holding, or developing, events in downtown Spokane to get together to share ideas, be inspired and create new opportunities.
Special Promotions
Collaborate with like-minded organizations to create a new promotion, event or activity. Staff are at the ready to work through challenges and find creative solutions.
First Friday
Designed to showcase Spokane’s art and retail scene, retailers and restaurants have joined forces with downtown to stay open, feature artists and musicians and offer special promotions.