WHAT WE DO

What we do

The Downtown Modesto Partnership enhances the downtown area by creating new community events and products to drive traffic to the district like:

  • Small Business Saturday

  • The RAD Card

  • Back Of House Food Tour

  • Pop-Up Fun Zones

  • Power Pilates on the Gallo Green

  • Bike Modesto

  • DoMo First Fridays

  • DoMo Walls, an international mural festival

  • DoMo Hunt, a mobile downtown Modesto scavenger hunt

  • Discover DoMo Pass

In addition, the group works to improve public spaces and plazas within the district boundaries — creating beautified areas for the community to gather. The Downtown Modesto Partnership has:

  • Redeveloped 10th Street, between J and I Streets

  • Co-developed Open Air Dining Plan in response to COVID-19

  • Worked with City of Modesto to redevelop J Street with traffic calming solutions and added parking

  • Created the Parklets Program

  • Worked with City of Modesto on public planning charrettes, finalizing the Downtown Master Plan

  • Commissioned and sponsored new downtown public art, utility box art

  • Installed tree lights along 10th Street, between I and K Streets

  • Facilitated Modesto on Ice downtown location

  • Helped secure grant funding for Gallo Center for the Art’s Music Garden

  • Purchased and manage downtown holiday light pole garlands

  • Partnered with Modesto Downtown Improvement District (DID) on Environmental Management programming

The Downtown Modesto Partnership’s goal is to build a positive image of downtown Modesto by highlighting all the great things the community has to offer and bolstering services that improve the user experience.

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2023 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN

Build our consortium

  • Partner with the City of Modesto to develop a downtown operations document

  • Memorialize our role with the City of Modesto

Amplify Use of Downtown Spaces

  • Develop and maintain a database of vacant properties & potential tenants

  • Develop an annual business promotion program and implement at least one new promotion

  • Add three additional days per week to the Back of House Food Tour

Expand Our Influence

  • Host at least three community conversations on urbanism

  • Launch a downtown music series with at least six shows