The City of Fairbanks Launches Storefront Improvement Program with Explore Fairbanks. The program uses bed tax dollars to match up to $50,000 dollars brought forward by tenants or their landlords to improve storefronts in the downtown core.Information and application instructions are here.
First Downtown Market is tomorrow! The Downtown Market will occur the third Thursday of each month from May – September (except June).
Biggest Day for Visitors is Sunday. Wednesdays and Sundays are Premier Alaska’s biggest days for visitors and Tuesdays and Thursdays for HAP, whose shuttle to downtown from the Fairbanks Princess and Westmark Hotel runs daily. If you are open Sundays, please make sure to tell Explore Fairbanks’ Charity Gadapee and Buzzy Chiu at Premier Alaska Tours.
MSF Team Wear. Again this year, we’re offering Midnight Sun Festival T-shirts for discounted presale offer to downtown’s customer-facing food service and retail businesses. Make yourself an ambassador for the Festival – a billboard of this year’s new design. Return the order form by May 31 for delivery week of June 9.
ESP resuming operations. The new Emergency Service Patrol has commenced operating with a new game plan city-wide, 8 hours a day, with 2 staff per shift. An exact schedule of which hours are worked daily to best meet the needs of chronically inebriated and incapacitated people is under development.
Join Monthly Downtown Meetings? Stay abreast of and contribute to the revitalization initiatives underway through Fairbanks2040. Contact david@downtownfairbanks.com for an initial invitation.
Generous, Community-Minded Sponsors support the Midnight Sun Festival. We’re grateful to Title Sponsor Kinross Alaska, and our many financial sponsors City of Fairbanks, Explore Fairbanks, GOOD Cannabis, Kendall Auto Alaska, Doyon, Ltd, Big Ray’s, TOTE, Alaska 529, Credit Union 1, Midnite Mine, Rylieh Bodyfelt, REALTOR® at Somers Sothebys International Realty, Confident by Olivia Yvonne, Verizon, Black Gold Transport, Denali State Bank and ConocoPhillips Alaska, Walsh, Kelliher & Sharp, Hale & Associates and Denali Industrial Supply. The Festival could not take physical form without various in-kind contributions from Big Ray’s, Exclusive Paving, Immaculate Conception Church, Mecca Bar, JL Properties, Springhill Suites, Mt. McKinley Bank, Alaska Court System, Lavery Transportation Center and Last Frontier Mediactive. Sponsorship opportunities are available until June 1.