Colorful, creative events and placemaking activate open spaces in Downtown Bridgeport! The Bridgeport DSSD is proud to offer marketing services and sponsorship opportunities to help businesses market to the neighborhood and beyond. Take advantage of our robust marketing channels, events, perks, and sponsorship packages to promote your business or organization throughout Downtown Bridgeport.
Downtown Bridgeport is a lively entertainment and nightlife hub, hosting recurring events like Jane’s Walk, Nature Nights, PARK(ing) Day, Downtown Salsa Nights, and Color It In walking tours. These activities connect residents, office workers, and visitors with the vibrant local businesses. Each event features sponsor logos and a “Brought to you by…” message.
Enhance Downtown Bridgeport’s charm by sponsoring its pocket parks, planters, and tree beds! These streetscape elements bring vibrancy to the city, benefiting businesses, residents, and visitors alike. Depending on the location, your sponsorship can include signage to showcase your support.
From July to October, the Downtown Farmers Market connects residents and 8,000+ office workers with fresh, local foods while supporting farmers, food producers, and artisans. Sponsorship funds a week of live entertainment and includes logo placement, boosting visibility among 8,500+ seasonal attendees.
Bridgeport Bucks are $5 printed coupons that are redeemed for produce at the Downtown Farmers Market from July through October. The printed Bridgeport Bucks include the sponsor’s logo, expanding your company’s visibility to the market’s 8,500+ seasonal onsite attendees while helping to lower the cost of fresh produce in the Bridgeport community.
A Pop of Color: Decorative Light Pole Banners ($250)
Decorative light pole banners brighten Downtown Bridgeport while promoting local businesses to residents, workers, students, and visitors. Displayed for a year starting June 2025, these 2’ x 4’ banners line Main Street, Broad Street, Fairfield Avenue, and McLevy Green. Sponsors can choose a design to complement their logo.
Local artists can customize murals, utility box designs, or other installation locations, that serve to beautify Downtown Bridgeport and feature a company or organization’s logo and/or business name. Public art adds great vibrancy and vitality to the district, by adding color and character to the street level experience. Sponsorship level varies based on the specific project.
Downtown Bridgeport is a commercial area that represents and serves a diverse tapestry of the wider Bridgeport community. It’s our public parks, independently owned restaurants and shops, and the vibrant arts and culture offerings in the neighborhood that create connection points and foster the sense of community so special to the Downtown and the city.
The Bridgeport DSSD’S cultural programming provides an array of diverse activities that encourage our small businesses, residents, office workers, and visitors to connect and add vibrancy to the Downtown neighborhood, and drives customers to explore and shop Downtown. The connections forged through attendance at these events serve to increase feelings of belonging and pride in the neighborhood.
Each year, we partner with local event producers to enhance our ability to achieve those outcomes. Our community event partnerships applications process has closed for the upcoming fiscal year. We invite organizations or groups who would like to partner with the Bridgeport DSSD to host an event in Downtown Bridgeport to submit an application in the spring of 2026. Check back for more details in January 2026.
our achievements owe everything to the support of our community.
thank you to our sponsors
The Bridgeport DSSD is grateful for the following partners and sponsors who through their funding recognize the importance of investing in Downtown Bridgeport. Each company’s contribution ensures that the sense of culture and community is bolstered with bright and vibrant placemaking activations all around Downtown Bridgeport’s commercial district.
