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For Downtown Merchants & For Residents
Businesses
Join in on the fun!
The DDA and Merchant & Business Association are here for you!
First Friday Art Walk
Participate & Prepare October 7, November 4, December 2
6 p.m. - 9 p.m. throughout Downtown
DowntownDelrayBeach.com receives over a half-million website visits per year.
Continue to promote your business on the new website by adding your Free Friday Concerts
photographs, video, promotions, events and additional information to your Each Friday beginning October 14
business landing page. If you have not received your log-in credentials, please Gates open at 6:30 pm; concerts start at 7:30
contact the DDA office. Old School Square Pavillion

Snapping a photo in your store for social media? Add #DowntownDelray to your 17th Annual Downtown Delray Beach
Facebook and Instagram posts! Thanksgiving Weekend Art Festival
November 26 and 27
Attend the Merchant & Business Association meetings on October 18, November 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
15, December 14, at 8:30am. Intersection of 4th Avenue and Atlantic Avenue

Shop Small Business Saturday • November 26, 2016 The DDA is an official Small Business Saturday
Neighborhood Champion and is partnered with G.E.A.R. Businesses are November 26
encouraged to register with American Express to fully leverage this program. All Day
www.americanexpress.com/ShopSmall Throughout Downtown

Window Decorating Contest • December 1, 2016. Sponsored by 100 Ft. Christmas Tree Lighting
the Downtown Merchant & Business Association and the December 1
DDA, all businesses in Downtown are invited to decorate 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.
their windows and businesses for the Holidays. Be festive, Grounds of Old School Square & E. Atlantic Ave
be creative and be competitive! Be ready by December
1 when the 100ft Tree is lit. Judging will commence on 45th Annual Holiday Boat Parade
December 1 and the winners will be announced December 9
December 8. Prizes (cash and trophies) for the following 5:30 p.m
categories will be awarded: Most Creative, Most Festive, Intracoastal Waterway
Most Delray, and Best Overall.
Delray Beach Holiday Parade
4th Annual Delray Beach Fashion Week • December 10
January 25-29, 2017 6 p.m.
Atlantic Avenue
Fashion retailers and hair salons
are encouraged to participate. For a complete listing of events and details please
DBFW sign-up happening now! visit DowntownDelrayBeach.com/Events
Contact the team via email: DDA@
DowntownDelrayBeach.com to be
included in all event marketing and
promotions.

9th Annual Savor the Avenue • March 27, 2017 Downtown’s finest restaurants
prepare 4-course meals for 1,100 guests as they dine down the double yellow line
of famed Atlantic Avenue from 5:30pm – 9:30pm. Visit DowntownDelrayBeach.
com/Events for a current list of all events taking place Downtown, including
descriptions, time, location and street closures.

The DDA Team will be contacting all merchants and businesses about participation
in these events. For information, please visit DowntownDelrayBeach.com/
Merchants, or contact the DDA by email: DDA@downtowndelraybeach.com or
phone: 561.243.1077.

Get to Know the DDA

The main areas of focus for the DDA are Economic Vitality of Downtown businesses, Place Making (Clean & Safe), and Marketing and Promotion
of the Downtown DDA district.

Economic Vitality

“Enhance the business environment and economic vitality by promoting a strong economy and advocating for the Downtown.”

Strategies include: maintaining a supportive business environment for small business owners and the growing scores of entrepreneurs, innovators,
and localists; ongoing process of data collection and access; fostering a program of business recruitment, strengthening and retention; making
the most of our unique sense of place and historic assets; nurturing economic specialties that set the Downtown apart; and advocating for
technological advancements in the Downtown.

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