Downtown Construction Meeting – next week

Don't forget -- Anchorage Downtown Partnership, Ltd. is hosting regularly occurring monthly meetings about the upcoming summer construction season for our stakeholders. These downtown construction meetings will happen on the first Wednesday of every month, 9:00am-10:00am at the Alaska State Trooper Museum (245 West 5th Avenue, Suite 113)

Please join us on Wednesday, May 7th from 9:00am-10:00am at the Trooper Museum. Representatives from the Municipality and the various projects in Downtown will be on hand. Bring your comments and questions about the summer construction season to the meeting!

ADP Welcomes new cornerstone sponsor!

Anchorage Downtown Partnership, Ltd. would like to welcome TATI Broadcasting as a Cornerstone Sponsor.

TATI stations include: The Breeze 105.7, KLEF FM 98.1, The End 94.7, KUDO 1080 Talk Radio, MOVIN 104.9, and 1020 AM. These stations will be providing coverage and radio personalities for all ADP events for 2008 & 2009.

As a new sponsor, they would like to offer all ADP members a 25% discount on all of their stations.

They would also like to offer a special $300 sponsorship opportunity for Galway Days and KNIK. KNIK will be advertising Galway Days for August 2nd 2008. Each sponsor will be receive 35 mentions as sponsors of Galway Days on KNIK July 28th through Saturday August 2nd.

Please contact Mike Robbins from TATI Broadcasting about these offers at 344-4451.

Give Blood on Tuesday at Snow City Cafe

Join the Snow City Cafe Blood Drive.  The Anchorage Blood Bank’s Bloodmobile will be parked on 4th Avenue in front of Snow City Cafe on Tuesday, May 6, 2008, from 9:00am until 1:00pm.

There are still several appointments open.  If you are interested in giving the gift of life, please call Cindy Lyons at 272-3218 or send an e-mail with the time you would like to give and your phone number to cindy@snowcitycafe.com.

All Donors will receive a free 12 oz. espresso drink!

Upcoming Downtown FAM Tours

For downtown business owners, employees, and representatives of the cruise industry interested in their knowing more about Downtown, Anchorage Downtown Partnership, Ltd. and the ACVB Log Cabin Visitor’s Center are co-hosting two Familiarization (FAM) Tour Scavenger Hunts.

The dates of the FAM Tours are Friday, May 9, 5:00-7:00pm and Saturday, May 10, 12:00pm-2:00pm.  The FAM Tours will begin by meeting inside the 4th Avenue Marketplace (333 West 4th Avenue)

Participants will have an opportunity to explore downtown while on a Scavenger Hunt.  We will meet at the end for prizes, drawings, to share and ask questions.

Due to the time constraint, it is difficult to include every downtown business in the FAM Tour Scavenger Hunt.  For businesses not part of the Scavenger Hunt, we will add any business information/enticements to bags we will hand out to each participant.  We encourage you to include items such as discount coupons, fliers indicating a free gift, etc. to encourage visiting your business during the course of the summer.

Please bring your information/coupons to the ADP office (3rd floor, 333 West 4th Avenue) by 12noon, Thursday, May 8.  We will stuff the bags for handout early Thursday afternoon.

If you have any questions please call Kris Natwick (ADP) at 279-5668 or email: knatwick@anchoragedowntown.org

A Celebration for Owen Barrington

From Suzi's Woolies: you are all invited to a Celebration for Owen Barrington - the "Worlds Irish Dance Champion 2008" - at the Snow Goose Theater May 8th from 7:00pm - 10:30pm. Come say congratulate him on his great win. Food and Drink available. Live music and dance, including a dance demonstration by Owen himself.

Free admission. All are welcome. For info, please call 277-9660

Thank you very much!

Thank you very much to everyone who attended our Open House Event on Thursday.  It was great to see so many familiar faces and friends from throughout Downtown.

An extra special thanks goes to those Member businesses who donated food, flowers and tables to our Open House:

- Bagoy’s Florist
- Dianne’s Restaurant
- Egan Center/SMG Catering
- Ginger
- Glacier Brewhouse
- Kobuk Coffee Co.

- Midnight Sun Café
- Municipal Greenhouse
- ORSO
- Rumrunner’s
- Sacks Café & Restaurant