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Come see why Downtown Lee’s Summit is “Friday Night Central” all summer long!Dust off your lawn chairs and shake out your blankets, the Music in the Park summer concert series begins Friday, May 28th and runs every Friday until Labor Day. Visit stores open late, pick up some take-out from a downtown restaurant & hang out with friends while listening to local musicians in Downtown Lee’s Summit. The Music in the Park summer concerts are brought to you by Downtown Lee’s Summit Main Street, Inc., in partnership with Bank of Lee’s Summit, the Lee’s Summit Journal, Bartlett & West and Cinematic Visions.

The concerts are free to the public and are held in Howard Station Park between 2nd & 3rd Streets on SE Main. Music begins at 6:30 pm and ends at 10:00 pm. The public is encouraged to listen to music, walk around downtown, and visit downtown shops and restaurants. Plenty of shade offers a cool way to enjoy these fantastic local musicians and performers. Downtown Lee’s Summit really is the place to be on Friday nights all summer long!

Local musicians volunteer their time and talent for the Music in the Park concerts. This year’s line-up includes returning seasoned bands, as well as solo artists just starting their careers. The KC Café Radio Show kicks off the concert series with performances by various artists on May 28th, then return on July 9th. The August 20th concert will feature Walkenhorst and Porter. The complete list of bands is listed below:

Date Time Band Name
28-May 6:30-8:00 KC Cafe Radio Show
8:30-10:00 KC Cafe Radio Show

4-Jun DOWNTOWN DAYS – 4 Stages in Downtown LS
www.LeesSummitDowntownDays.com

11-Jun 6:30-8:00 Larry Garrett & Duane Woner
8:30-10:00 Street Corner Choir

18-Jun LS Parks & Rec’s BAYOU BASH (in City Hall Plaza)

25-Jun 6:30-8:00 Two Headed Cow
8:30-10:00 Kan Eyed

2-Jul 6:30-8:00 Kathy Forste
8:30-10:00 Begin Anyway

9-Jul 6:30-8:00 KC Cafe Radio Show
8:30-10:00 KC Cafe Radio Show

16-Jul 6:30-8:00 Orange Institution
8:30-10:00 Scott Moyer Band

23-Jul LS Parks & Rec’s JAMAICAN JAM (in City Hall Plaza)

30-Jul 6:30-8:00 Gas Food Lodging
8:30-10:00 7 Mysteries

6-Aug LS Parks & Rec’s BLUES & JAZZ FEST (in City Hall Plaza)

13-Aug 6:30-8:00 Begin Anyway
8:30-10:00 KC Drum Tribe

20-Aug 6:30-7:30 Western Automatic
8:00-10:00 Walkenhorst and Porter

27-Aug 6:30-8:00 Spiny Norman
8:30-10:00 Spiny Norman

3-Sep 6:30-8:00 Butterfly Brass Band
8:30-10:00 David Jackson

Downtown Lee’s Summit Main Street, Inc., is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to the revitalization of Downtown Lee’s Summit. For more information about Music in the Park or Downtown Lee’s Summit, please visit www.downtownls.org or call 816-246-6598.

The Downtown Days… Streets Alive! committee has extended the deadline for vendor applications! We are still accepting arts & craft, commercial, and food vendors. For more information or to apply to be a vendor, please visit our website www.LeesSummitDowntownDays.com or call (816) 246-6598.

 

 

The festival takes place June 5, 6, & 7, 2009, and consists of two stages of live entertainment, a carnival, a Car Show, the Go Fast Jet Pack Man, and much more!

 

 

Downtown Days is being presented by Downtown Lee’s Summit Main Street in partnership with the Bank of Lee’s Summit.  The mission of Downtown Lee’s Summit Main Street is to promote downtown as the center of commerce, culture, and community life for residents and visitors alike.  For more information about DLSMS, please visit www.downtownls.org.

 

Calling all chocolate lovers…Downtown Lee’s Summit has the perfect fix for that sweet tooth.  On Saturday, February 7^th, come experience the 2^nd Annual Chocolate Crawl. Downtown Lee’s Summit is trying to make shopping for that special Valentine fun! Enjoy FREE chocolate treats while shopping from 10 am to 5 pm.  Whether you’re shopping for yourself or for your sweetie, the sweets are still yours and the shopping is fun!  Just follow the balloons to over 25 participating stores and restaurants and get in the mood for Valentine’s Day.

Shoppers can also enter to win a Valentine’s Day Gift Basket filled with a variety of items showcasing what Downtown Lee’s Summit has to offer.  Drawing slips are available at each participating store.  The first 300 shoppers will receive special candy boxes filled with coupons. Get your special box at any one of the participating stores with balloons outside.

This event is being presented by the Downtown Lee’s Summit Main Street’s Promotions Committee.  The mission of this committee is to promote downtown as the center of commerce, culture, and community life for residents and visitors alike. For more information about this event or other upcoming Downtown Lee’s Summit events, visit www.downtownls.org or call 816-246-6598

 

Get rewarded for shopping in Downtown Lees Summit this holiday season! Make sure to hold on to your receipts while you shop for SPARKLING gifts for everyone on your list between November 14th and December 24th. For every $50 you spend in Downtown retail stores, you can enter to win one of five $100 shopping sprees to be given away. The $50 can come from one store, or a combination of several stores.

Once your shopping is complete, take your Downtown receipts to A Thyme for Everything (231 SE Main Street). Your receipts will then be marked and you will receive an entry form to fill out. It is just as simple as that! Winners will be drawn on December 26th. Downtown Lees Summit Main Street Gift Checks can be used at any DLSMS business.

Downtown business and property owners are invited to attend one of three Community Improvement District Focus Group Meetings.  The agenda will include a brief update, discussion about possible CID services, and Q & A session.

Date: Wednesday, May 14th

Time: 7:30 am – 9:30 am; 11:30 am – 1:30 pm; OR 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Location: Jack T. Fields Conference Room inside First Community Bank,  301 SE Main St.

Light breakfast items will be provided for the morning meeting.  Sandwiches and chips will be provided for the afternoon and evening meetings.  Make sure to RSVP to Sarah in the Main Street office if you plan on attending one of the meetings (816-246-6598 or sarah@downtownls.org).  We want to make sure we have enough food and handouts.

We need your feedback so please plan to attend!

Today Gina and I had the opportunity to meet 4 super neat kids and their awesome teacher!  DLSMS is a Partner in Education with Lee’s Summit Elementary which is right here in downtown LS.  The Partners in Education program is run through the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District, and it pairs businesses up with local schools so kids can learn how to apply what they learn to the “real world”.  Cheryl McLaughlin contacted DLSMS to see if we would talk with some kids from LSE’s ASPIRE Program about what we do here in the Main Street office, with a focus on creativity and leadership.  Gina and I put a short little presentation together for them.

We started with a little history, and explained the Main Street Four-Point Approach.  Then we focused on how we put on different retail and special events.  We gave some examples of our events and even showed them our colorful posters.  We then taught them about work plans and how they help us stay on task.

Then we got to the fun part – the kids came up with and planned their own event!  They wanted to see a downtown ‘LS Idol’ competition, but wanted it to focus on kids in the schools.  I’m telling you – they all had super, well-thought-out ideas!  They were so good about thinking of ways they could include downtown merchants into their event, and they even filled out a work plan!  Who knows, maybe we’ll incorporate something like that into one of our events with their help!

Afterwards they asked us some questions…how we use creativity in our jobs, what we like best about our jobs, etc.  Then they told us what they want to be – an event planner, an astrophysicist, an actor/comedian – a big variety!

It was so fun spending the afternoon with them.  And it was great seeing kids thinking about our downtown in a new and fun way!

Sarah

 

Staff at Downtown Lee’s Summit Main Street, Inc. has decided to start blogging!  We will be updating this blog with what’s going on in our office and with our committees.  We might blog about a neat seminar we attend, or new projects we’ve started.  It’s a way for us to communicate with merchants and others in a new way!

 

Coming soon…information about our Downtown Wayfinding Plan!

This area is for merchants and shoppers.  Share what is going on around downtown, and why you love it! Merchants feel free to share special events or new items that you have in store.

It All Starts Here!

And it does. It’s a new era for Downtown Lee’s Summit! Thanks to our recently completed Streetscape Project and our new attitude – Downtown is more exciting than ever. Come down and see what you’re missing!