Small Business &
Economic Vitality
Our Priorities
Small businesses and active streets are what make downtown unique, interesting and attractive to locals and visitors alike. Your investment helps businesses hold on through infrastructure improvements and construction, keeping people coming to key downtown districts, such as Historic Sixth Street.
Programs Your Investment Supports
Historic East 6th Street Refresh
Historic Sixth Street, all day and into the night. Sixth Street has shaped Austin's culture and commerce for more than a century, and some of the city's oldest storefronts still line it. The Refresh is making East 6th a place people want to be all day, not only at night: storefront grants, murals where barricades stand, new trees and new reasons to visit from morning to midnight.
Your investment means more open storefronts and more life on East 6th, 18 hours a day.
Construction Relief
Construction is part of a growing downtown, but it can cut a small business off from its customers. Construction Relief grants help those businesses hold on, reach new customers and find new ways to bring in revenue.
Your investment helps more businesses make it through construction.
Downtown Austin Space Activation (DASA)
DASA puts artists and small businesses into vacant and underused storefronts that would otherwise sit dark, with affordable space and incubator support that helps them grow into long-term tenants.
Your investment keeps downtown alive through construction and builds what comes after it.