Downtown, Happy Thanksgiving and happy holiday season. We all have so much to be Thankful for this year as Downtown continued to grow and investment, energy, and new people continued to come in. Some of us were new businesses and employees part of that growth and others were part of existing businesses that help set…

Downtown, It seems we have officially entered Winter and she gave us a clear welcoming and fierce arrival. If you guys have been reading these every month you know from last year, I like to enter winter with a goal of refining and growing my business. For me life starts to slow down and I…

Happy August! The heat of summer is here and the heat of business. Downtown is booming and the shops that make up its heart are pumping along. For a lot of us one of our busiest months, where we put our best foot forward to our loyal customers and newcomers. Working to keep up with…

Out to Lunch, Downtown Tonight, Farmers Market, Clark Fork Market…it is here! The balsamroots have been in full force turning parts of the mountain yellow and are already starting to move on to leave room for another array of beautiful summer wildflowers. It seems like when the Mountains start to turn shades of yellow, blue,…

Nothing says summer to me like the markets starting up and Garden City Brewfest. It means the air is warming and we see green everywhere instead of grey. Without the long winter Spring and Summer just wouldn’t seem as sweet and precious. People start to flood Downtown on Saturdays to buy up local produce and…

Spring is here and with it comes a new vibrancy in Downtown Missoula. It means flower baskets are close to going up and street cleaning continues to go in full force, keeping our Downtown beautiful and welcoming. Along with the hundreds of small things the MDA does to keep our Downtown a place where businesses…

Downtown Missoula is in such an exciting place as we begin the long trudge out of winter and into spring. It might seem like it will never come after this previous week, but as does the changing landscape of downtown, the weather will undoubtedly change as well. Since we don’t have warm weather to look…

SIX INDIVIDUALS RECEIVE DOWNTOWN AWARDS AT ANNUAL MDA BANQUET; SUSAN HAY PATRICK NAMED CEDERBERG DOWNTOWNER OF THE YEAR Twenty-one individuals and businesses were nominated by members of the Missoula Downtown Association (MDA) last month for six special awards given annually by the non-profit, business association to recognize the good works that benefit Downtown Missoula. The…

There are moments in an organization and in a community that end up being transformational in the impact, direction, and energy they bring and the path they take them on. We are at a point where we are experiencing a series of independent moments that are all converging together, and set to change the landscape…

The Missoula Downtown Foundation’s (MDF) Friends of Downtown annual campaign continues through December 31st.  MDF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which supports Missoula through enhancement of Downtown, now and for future generations:  Commerce, Heritage, Culture & Living.  Online donations can be made at www.downtownMissoulafriends.org or via mail to 218 E. Main #C, Missoula MT 59801….