Ithaca Retail Mini-Grant Program

Downtown Ithaca Alliance Ithaca Retail Mini-Grant Program The Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA) is continuing another round of the Ithaca Retail Mini Grant Program (IRMGP). APPLICATIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED APPLICATION CLOSED MARCH 27, 2026 AT 10:00 PM Thank you to all who submitted an application. Overview Eligibility Resources Quotes 2025 Grantees Grant Program Overview The program is intended to address the … Read More

DOWNTOWN ITHACA ALLIANCE  DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSIVITY STATEMENT OF POLICY & PRACTICES

CREATING A PLACE FOR EVERYONE DOWNTOWN ITHACA ALLIANCE DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSIVITY STATEMENT OF POLICY & PRACTICES The Downtown Ithaca Alliance District Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity Policy and Practices document is dedicated to encouraging a supportive and inclusive culture across our whole workforce and organization. We desire to promote diversity and inclusivity at the Downtown Ithaca Alliance and work to … Read More

Bike Repair Station now available in Press Bay Court

Galvanised bike repair station and pump

 Downtown Ithaca now has a new bike repair station at 110 W. State St., Press Bay Court.  The community bike repair station is equipped with the tools required for basic bike repairs and maintenance. Screwdrivers, wrenches, tire levels, and an air pump ensure users can perform fixes that range from adjusting the brakes to changing a flat tire. The station … Read More

Tompkins Together

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The Tompkins Chamber, Visit Ithaca, and the Downtown Ithaca Alliance have been collaborating on a feel-good campaign focusing on those working in the hospitality industry. The goal of this campaign is to spread kindness, encourage patience, and elicit understanding in acknowledgment that businesses are experiencing real staffing challenges.

Ithaca’s Art Bike Racks

Ithaca’s Art Bike Racks In 2017, the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA) and the City of Ithaca together with the Tompkins County Tourism Program and Bike Walk Tompkins launched a Community Bike Rack Design Competition with the idea of encouraging cycling as a desirable mode of transportation as well as enhancing downtown Ithaca with creative functional art, designed by and for … Read More

Dog Friendly

Green dog waste bag station on the Commons to make Commons a more pet friendly community

To make the dog walking experience on the Commons even more enjoyable, four new dog waste bag stations are now available on the pedestrian walkway. The green dispensers contain compostable bags, making it more convenient for dog-walkers to clean up after their pets. It’s an initiative that will help keep the Commons clean of animal feces. This initiative is meant to … Read More

Ithaca Community Bike Rack Design Competition- ROUND TWO

Ithaca Community Bike Rack Design Competition- ROUND TWO Submission Deadline: August 31, 2020 Contact kris@downtownithaca.com for more information. Winners Announced: November 2020  The Downtown Ithaca Alliance and the City of Ithaca are looking for creative bike rack designs! Even a bicycle rack can be transformed into a work of art in a marriage of form and function. Twelve (12) highly … Read More

State of Downtown Ithaca

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An Important Message for the Downtown Ithaca Alliance Executive Director  We live in troubling times… unrelenting and heartbreaking racism and violence against people of color, a global pandemic that has killed over 100,000 people in this country alone, and an economic downturn that has put 40,000,000 Americans (including some 9,000 Tompkins County residents) into unemployment. Isolation has begotten cynicism. The … Read More