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 Summer Hanging Baskets (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 Juneteenth Celebration (click here for more information)
- Wellness on the Plaza (click here for more information)
- Akron Latin Festival (click here for more information)
- Downtown Akron Fall Fest (click here for more information)
- Smells Like Snow Coffee Festival (click here for more information)
- Main Street Winter Lighting (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:
2025-26 Main Street Winter Lighting Sponsors
- Pella Windows and Doors
- Williams Hardwood Flooring
- KF Marketing LLC
- The Mick and Rick Band
- Great Work Employment Services
- Burgess & Niple, Inc.
- Summit County Executive Ilene Shapiro
- Narrow Path Investigations
- Akron/Summit Convention & Visitors Bureau
- Art x Love
- McDonald Hopkins LLC
- Missing Falls Brewery
- Summit Choral Society
- Liz Denholm
- Jessica Cherok
- The University of Akron
- GAR Foundation
- Precision Garage Door Service of Akron
- The Shott Family
2025 Akron Latin Festival Sponsors
- Mayflower Manor Senior Housing
- Raices Employee Resource Group at the J. M. Smucker Co.
- Summit County Prosecutor's Office
2025 Downtown Akron Fall Fest Sponsors
- Summit County Prosecutor's Office
- Akron Cleveland Association of REALTORS
2025 Main Street Hanging Flower Basket Sponsors
- Liz Denholm
- The Beckett Family
- McDonald Hopkins
- 159 Main
- KF Marketing, LLC
- The Mick and Rick Band
- Burgess & Niple, Inc.
- Gary Rickel
- Art x Love
- Michael Derr & Greg Sterling
- DLZ
- Akron Cleveland Association of REALTORS
- Great Work Employment Services
- Summit County Land Bank
- State and Federal Communications, Inc.
- Akron/Summit Convention & Visitors Bureau
- Greystone
- John S. Knight Center
- Explore City Tours
- Summit County Executive Ilene Shapiro
- Better Business Bureau
- Akron Summit Community Action
- CESO Inc.
- Jean Barron, in honor of James Barron
- Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP
- Dr. Patricia Sheahan, in honor of Jim Sheahan
- Jackson Kelly PLLC
- Williams Hardwood Flooring
- Thomas Hollingsworth, in honor of David Lieberth
- Narrow Path Investigations