Downtown Little Rock Partnership

10/20/2026

10/20/2026

Help shape the future of Downtown Little Rock!

What could a new public space over I-30 mean for our community?

The City of Little Rock, AR - Government is inviting residents, businesses, and community stakeholders to share their thoughts on the I-30 Deck Park Planning Study during its second community engagement meeting this Thursday, October 22!

The proposed deck park would explore opportunities to reconnect the east and west sides of Little Rock, create safer pedestrian and bicycle connections, and introduce new public gathering spaces between 6th and 9th streets.

During the meeting, attendees can review proposed alternatives, explore potential park amenities and features, ask questions, and provide feedback to help inform future recommendations.

📅 Thursday, October 22
⏰ 4:30–6:30 PM
📍 East Little Rock Community Center (Gym)
2500 E. 6th St., Little Rock

The meeting will be open-house style, with no formal presentation, so stop by anytime during the scheduled hours!

Can't make it? Meeting materials and comment forms will be available online beginning October 22, with public comments accepted through November 6 at 4:30 PM.

Learn more and share your feedback at: https://lri30deckpark.publicmtgs.com/

10/20/2026

💀🌼 Día de Mu***os is almost here, Downtown Little Rock!

We’re just days away from a colorful celebration of life, love, culture, and remembrance, and you won’t want to miss it!

This Saturday, October 24, Downtown Little Rock Partnership is teaming up with the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) and UA Little Rock for the Día de Mu***os (Day of the Dead) Festival at CALS Main Library!

We’re looking back at some of our favorite moments from past celebrations, and if these photos are any indication, you’re in for a beautiful experience!

Here’s what you can look forward to! 👇

🌼 Beautiful ofrendas (altars) honoring loved ones
🎶 Live music and cultural performances
🌮 Delicious traditional Mexican food
🎨 Vibrant art installations and creative activities
❤️ Family-friendly fun for all ages

Whether you’re returning to celebrate with us or experiencing Día de Mu***os for the first time, come discover a tradition that brings our community together through art, culture, food, and the memories of those we love.

📅 Saturday, October 24
⏰ 11 AM – 2 PM
📍 CALS Main Library | Downtown Little Rock
🎟️ FREE & open to everyone!

Bring your family, invite your friends, and make plans to spend your Saturday downtown. We can’t wait to celebrate with you! 💙

Event Partners: Central Arkansas Library System, Downtown Little Rock Partnership, and UA Little Rock.

Special thanks to our sponsors: First Security Bank, ACC Capital, Windgate Foundation, Encore Bank, Mitchell Williams Law Firm, and CALS Foundation.

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10/20/2026

🏗️ : Rethinking Downtown Parking

What if we could have MORE parking while using LESS space? 👀

This week, we’re continuing our conversation about the Downtown Little Rock Master Plan and Issue 3 by exploring something we all use: PARKING! 🚗

Downtown Little Rock has surface parking lots that take up entire blocks. But what if we could rethink how that space is used?

Imagine replacing some of those lots with parking garages that offer: 👇

🚗 More parking spaces in a smaller footprint
💸 Potentially free or more affordable public parking
🎨 Public art, murals, and creative spaces
🚶 Easier access to downtown businesses and attractions
🏙️ More room for housing, restaurants, retail, and public spaces

By building UP instead of OUT, we could create more convenient parking for downtown residents, workers, and visitors while opening up valuable land for new development.
So, where does Issue 3 come in?

Issue 3 would give the Arkansas General Assembly authority to create additional economic development tools and allow cities and counties to establish economic development districts under future legislation.

Depending on those rules and local plans, these tools could help communities explore projects involving parking, infrastructure, and the redevelopment of underused properties.

Issue 3 wouldn’t automatically build a parking garage or make parking free. Those decisions would still require planning, funding, and local approval.

But rethinking parking supports a bigger goal of the Downtown Little Rock Master Plan: creating a more connected, walkable, and vibrant downtown.

More parking options. More productive spaces. More reasons to spend time downtown. 💙

What do YOU think? Would you like to see more parking garages, potentially free public parking, and fewer surface lots downtown? 👇

10/14/2026

💀🌼 Celebrate Día de Mu***os in Downtown Little Rock!

Join us on Saturday, October 24, as Downtown Little Rock Partnership teams up with the Central Arkansas Library System (Central Arkansas Library System) and UA Little Rock (UA Little Rock) for a colorful celebration of life, love, culture, and remembrance at CALS Main Library!

Experience the beauty and traditions of Día de Mu***os (Day of the Dead), a celebration honoring the lives and memories of loved ones who have passed.

Here’s what’s waiting for you! 👇
🌼 Beautiful ofrendas (altars) honoring loved ones
🎶 Live music and cultural performances
🌮 Delicious traditional Mexican food
🎨 Art installations and creative activities
❤️ Family-friendly fun for all ages

📅 Saturday, October 24
⏰ 11 AM – 2 PM
📍 CALS Main Library | Downtown Little Rock
🎟️ FREE & open to everyone!

Come experience a celebration that brings our community together through art, culture, food, and tradition. We can’t wait to see you downtown! 💙

Event Partners: Central Arkansas Library System, Downtown Little Rock Partnership, and UA Little Rock.

Special thanks to our sponsors: First Security Bank, ACC Capital, Windgate Foundation, Encore Bank, Mitchell Williams Law Firm, and CALS Foundation.

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10/13/2026

🍴✍️ MAY THE WORDS BE YUM! ✍️🍴

Calling all foodies, wordsmiths, and Downtown Little Rock lovers! 💙

What does Downtown Little Rock taste like to you?

Maybe it’s your favorite dish at a downtown restaurant, the smell of something delicious coming from a food truck, or the impossible decision of what to eat at the Downtown Food Truck Festival!

Whatever comes to mind, we want to hear about it — in just THREE lines!

Downtown Little Rock Partnership is inviting YOU to participate in MAY THE WORDS BE YUM!, our Downtown Little Rock Haiku Contest celebrating the people, places, and flavors that make our downtown food scene special.

And the best part? Your words could become part of a temporary public art installation in Downtown Little Rock! 🎨

NEED A LITTLE INSPIRATION? HERE ARE SOME PROMPTS! 👇

🍽️ A Downtown Dining Experience: Describe a downtown restaurant buzzing with hungry people. What do they look like, say, and eat?

🚚 Food Truck Favorites: Describe ordering a meal from a downtown food truck. What do you see, smell, and hear?

🌮 Too Many Good Choices: Capture the difficult task of deciding what to eat at the Downtown Food Truck Festival!

🍕 A Taste of Downtown: Describe a dish that represents Downtown Little Rock’s food scene. What does it taste like, and where can you find it?

🏆 AND YES, THERE ARE PRIZES!
🥇 First Place: $100 downtown restaurant gift certificate
🥈 Second Place: $50 downtown restaurant gift certificate
🥉 Third Place: $25 downtown restaurant gift certificate

📝 FREE to enter!
✍️ Submit up to THREE original haikus!
🏙️ Selected poems could be displayed throughout Downtown Little Rock!
📅 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2026!

Whether you’re a seasoned poet or just someone who knows a good meal when you taste one, we want to see what you come up with!

Three lines. Endless possibilities. One downtown full of flavor.

🔗 READY TO PUT YOUR WORDS ON THE MENU?
Learn more and submit your haiku by November 15:

Link in Bio — https://downtownlr.com/downtown-little-rock-haiku-contest/

Put Downtown Little Rock’s food scene into three lines! Enter the DLRP Haiku Contest for a chance to have your poem displayed throughout downtown.

10/12/2026

DFA today opened a new Revenue Office in downtown Little Rock (101 E. Capitol). The office, now open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each weekday, allows the thousands of people who work downtown to take care of Revenue Office business without getting in their car.

DFA Secretary Jim Hudson joined Kyle Leyenberger, executive director of the Downtown Little Rock Partnership, to celebrate the grand opening. Arkansans can now track wait times at all 130-plus Revenue Offices in real time at the MyArkansas app, available in the App Store and Google Play.

10/12/2026

🏗️ : 9th & Main Street 🏗️

What if this parking lot could be MORE? 👀

This week, we’re bringing Masterplan Monday and Issue 3 together to explore how economic development tools could help turn the vision for Downtown Little Rock into reality!

The Downtown Little Rock Master Plan calls for doubling our downtown population over the next decade, and one way to get there is turning underused spaces into places where people can live, work, shop, and gather.

Take the state-owned parking lot at 9th and Main Street. Our friends at Cromwell have imagined what this entire block could become! 👇

🏡 Approximately 126 apartments and condos
🏨 A 200-room hotel
🛍️ Ground-floor retail and a grocery store
🎨 Museum and art gallery space
🚗 A parking garage with 300+ spaces
🚶 More walkability and activity downtown

 And this location is especially important! Situated along historic West 9th Street, once the heart of Little Rock’s Black commerce and entertainment, the block connects the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, Main Street, and SoMa.

 So, what does this have to do with Issue 3?
In Downtown Little Rock, land is one of our most valuable resources. Issue 3 would allow our community to create new programs, loans, and grants through locally controlled economic development districts. 

These EDDs could help communities support things like housing, businesses, roads and infrastructure, and the redevelopment of old or empty properties.

Imagine the possibilities: A parking lot becomes housing. A storefront opens. More people live downtown. More people walk downtown. More businesses have customers.

This rendering is a vision, not an approved development, and Issue 3 wouldn’t automatically make it happen.

But empty parking lots don’t have to stay empty parking lots.
 
A stronger downtown starts with imagining what’s possible. 💙

What’s YOUR vision for 9th and Main? Let us know in the comments! 👇