Reaching Fargoans where they are - in restaurants, at the theater and on the streets.  A key public event was designed with the annual Frostival Festival Downtown in February. 

Brrr... but a warming tent with a Johnny Cash cover band made it all worth it.  

Like many cities across the country, both large and small, Downtown Fargo has weathered booms and busts, but today, much momentum exists. Downtown is a growing residential neighborhood, home to innovative businesses and a collection of locally-owned stores and restaurants that rivals that of cities with much larger populations. Some issues nonetheless persist, however, and new challenges have emerged. 

Downtown suffers from too many surface parking lots that were once occupied by stores or housing. It can be hard to find basic services and goods, and the infrastructure along and under many streets – the oldest in the City – is in need of major improvements. With growth and increased buzz, Downtown Fargo now faces the challenge of ensuring that the Downtown experience is positive one for everyone – that visitors can find their way to destinations and feel safe doing so, that long-term businesses and cultural organizations are not priced out, that the historic fabric is not over-written by new development.

Timing in Downtown Fargo is critical. Events need to fully support Downtown businesses. 

Our team needed to understand programming and the impact of specific events on Downtown businesses.  Some events negatively impact businesses and few are organized at times when Downtown retailers really need a marketing push.  Close coordination with Downtown retailers revealed that the majority of their sales occur during just a few critical months.