Davis Downtown Business Association

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The mission of the Davis Downtown Business Association is to promote the physical and financial health of the downtown as the primary business, social and cultural center of the City of Davis thereby enhancing our community at large. Our downtown spans 32 blocks with over 490 retail, professional, and service businesses and over 70 restaurants and coffee shops. Downtown Davis serves as the city's center for business, culture, and entertainment.

Business and property owners, by virtue of their downtown location, are members of the the DDBA. Each business pays a Business Improvement District Fee to the City of Davis based on their annual revenue, which is used to fund DDBA activities. The DDBA, often in hand with the City of Davis organizes and promotes many events and activities that benefit the Downtown Davis Business Community. These events are designed to bring people downtown and increase pedestrian and retail activity.

Friday Nights Downtown
Annual Sidewalk Sale
Fall Welcome for UCD students
Trick-or-Treat Downtown
Holiday Open House - Children's Parade, Tree Lighting, business open houses
Holiday Activites Downtown
Breakfast with Santa
Davisfest

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2007-10-25 09:13:23 It would be great to do an annual Art Walk in Davis - like the Sac's Second Saturday. I know it's riding on Sacramento's coattails, but I just attended their Second Saturday Art Walk, and it was fantastic. I can only imagine how grand this would be in Davis, and people would finally notice all of our cool shops and galleries. We went into this hair salon that was displaying local art, and oh man - we're going back for a shi'shi hair cut, seriously. It's good for business. —TimQuick

2008-07-26 19:27:53 The DDBA is a total rip... I had my shop in the basement of a building on the corner of 4th and E for 2 years and they kept sending me bills (which I paid) for "downtown beautification". I work in a freakin basement, I don't see the benifits of Downtown Beautification. And when it came time to promote my business, they kept "forgetting" to list me under bike shops even though the City and the Chamber (of which I am not a member yet) listed me. Finally after I kept on them, they listed me in their publication, with the wrong phone #. They just finally got everything right, and now I'm moving my shop, go figure. What a total waste of time. Hopefully their new director will do things better. —Aaron.Curtin

2009-06-04 23:30:49 I just read Tanya Perez's June 4 *Davis Enterprise* column: "Downtown businesses, have I got an idea for you!" Her idea is a really great one: to create a downtown gift card to resolve the hand-wringing process that most parents in this town face, when, at the end of the school year, we thank the numerous teachers, school/program staff, aides, coaches, sitters, etc. who are so generous to give of themselves in providing our children with happy, mostly-healthy, life skills—we're spoiled and we want to spoil them.

This idea of keeping gifts local to Davis is a real issue that Tanya hits on the head: For instance, I'm in a group of parents that was recently debating on an email list between offering $200+ for an Outdoor Davis gift certificate or the same sum for a Costco gift card...). You get the idea.

If such a universal gift card were created for use at local businesses, by the Davis Downtown Business Association, I'd rally we challenge them too, to give back. In line with the “Act local, think global” bumper sticker slogan, such a gift card program could provide an additional mechanism (and additional incentive to gift card buyers) to donate a percentage of the card purchases to worthy, viable nonprofits doing good for the planet—not necessarily in Davis—maybe dog eared by the gift card buyer? (see http://www.charitynavigator.org/). Or, even better, as a way to focus energy and attention in giving, Davis could 'adopt' a less fortunate town in another, less fortunate country—-not just a ‘sister’ town but a ‘sponsored’ town…

Because, like I said, we, our children, and our community are pretty much spoiled with so much thoughtful reciprocity in community building and gift giving, collectively, we can do a lot of good in the world by modeling what a good community does: think of others as well as care for ourselves and our own.

—wryezome