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Shop Local, Support Downtown Akron

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  • Sat, Nov 1, 2025 - Wed, Dec 31, 2025  

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Shop Local Support Downtown Akron

This holiday shopping season shop local and support downtown Akron businesses!

Enter for a chance to win prizes when you visit or shop downtown this holiday season with our Shop Local program. There are weekly prizes, completist prizes, and grand prizes.

To participate:

  • Pick up a GREEN Shop Local Support Downtown Akron pin at any of more than 10 downtown locations, or use your BLUE Shop Local pin from last year.
  • Wear your pin when you're downtown (and everywhere else)!

Shop Local Buttons are available at these locations (with more coming soon!)

Prizes and entry:

  • Weekly prizes: Take a selfie inside a retail, experience-based or dining business with your Shop Local pin visible and post it to social media, tagging DAP and the business patronized to enter for a weekly prize
  • Downtown Advocate Prize: Make purchases at 3 retail or experience-based businesses and 3 dining establishments (6 places total), then send photos of your button and your 6 receipts to info@downtownakron.com to enter for the Downtown Advocate Prize, which will include two tickets to either The Great Escape Room or The Nightlight Cinema and a $50 Downtown Akron Dollars E-Gift Card
  • Downtown Champion Prize: Make purchases at 7 retail or experience-based businesses and 7 dining establishments (14 places total), then send photos of their your buttons and 14 receipts to info@downtownakron.com to enter for a grand prize, which will include a one-night stay at the BLU-Tique Hotel, two tickets to a show, and a $100 Downtown Akron Dollars E-Gift Card
  • Completist Prizes: Everyone who enters to win the Downtown Champion Prize by submitting 14 receipts will automatically receive a Completist Prize (while supplies last).

Experience-based purchases include: purchasing tickets to a show, concert, visiting a museum, attending a sporting event, the Great Escape Room, going to a studio session at Street Craftery, as well as service activities, such as getting a haircut at The Experience Barber and Beauty Shop. *Free experiences count: instead of a sales receipt, send a photo of yourself at the event with a date and description.

For lists of retail, experience, and dining establishments located in the 49-block Downtown Akron Special Improvement District, visit downtownakron.com/explore.