Connecting communities with the businesses, events, and people that make their downtowns worth visiting. Local businesses get profiles that do them justice, and residents discover what's happening around them.
Downtown+ is a community platform that connects neighborhoods with the local businesses, events, deals, and news around them. Every downtown gets its own page, its own look, and its own directory of shops, restaurants, freelancers, and makers. Residents use it to discover what's nearby, browse upcoming events, find deals, and buy directly from local vendors. Business owners and individuals use it to build a profile, post what they have going on, and reach the people who live down the street. It's free to join, with no separate storefront to manage and no big-marketplace anonymity. Just your community, organized in one place.
Every path is free to start. Choose the one that fits how you want to show up in your downtown.
Discover businesses, browse events, shop from local vendors, and track your orders.
Start exploringFor individualsBuild a professional profile, sell what you make, share your expertise, and connect with your community.
Build your profileFor businessesList your business, post events and deals, sell products, and reach local customers.
Start sellingPick your city or neighborhood. Each one has its own page built around local life.
Browse businesses, events, deals, and products from people in your community.
Create a free account to save what you love, shop local, or list your own business.
A quick look at what your downtown looks like on Downtown+.
Every local business in your downtown, in one place.
Upcoming events and current deals, all local.
Real products from your neighbors, checkout built in.
Shops, events, deals, news, and products from your area, instead of buried under national results.
Every community gets its own page and branding, so it feels like home, not a generic directory.
Local businesses and people tied to the place you live, not faceless listings from across the country.
| Feature | Downtown+ | A generic directory |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Your specific downtown | Everything, everywhere |
| Events, deals & news | Built in, in one place | Scattered or missing |
| Shop local vendors | Integrated checkout & shipping | Links out, if at all |
| Community feel | Its own page per downtown | One-size-fits-all listings |
| Cost to join | Free | Often paid placement |
Yes. Creating an account is free for residents, and businesses and individuals can build a profile at no cost. Businesses can choose an optional Premium upgrade for a verified badge and extra features.
A downtown is a specific city or neighborhood with its own page, branding, and directory. You pick the one closest to you, and everything you see is local to that community.
Downtown+ currently serves 8 communities across Florida: Brooksville, Clearwater, Clearwater Beach, Dunedin, New Port Richey, St. Pete, Tampa, and Tarpon. More are on the way.
Downtown+ is local-first. Instead of ranking the whole country, it organizes one community at a time and lets you browse events, find deals, and buy from local vendors in the same place.
Yes. Businesses and individuals can both list a profile, post events, deals, and news, and sell products with built-in checkout and shipping. Start on the Grow Your Business or Showcase Your Work page.
Ratings and reviews are a system waiting to be gamed. They're easy to fake, easy to weaponize, and they stopped representing local businesses honestly a long time ago. So we don't have them. Downtown+ isn't a social network and never will be. We kept what's useful about being local and online, and threw out the machinery that makes the rest of the internet exhausting.
Downtown+ is growing across Florida. Jump straight into your community.
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Create a free account to save what you love, shop local, and support the businesses around you.